Product Description

From appreciating wine to understanding modern art, placing a bet to playing poker, wearing a hat to finding the mains, HOW TO WALK IN HIGH HEELS helps you navigate life's challenges with style.



Camilla Morton has been ably assisted by a host of experts including Manolo Blahnik, who tells you How to Pick a Shoe, Gisele, who explains How to Look Good in a Photo and Anya Hindmarch, who reveals How to Pack a Suitcase.



Funny and informative, filled with great quotes and fascinating facts this will transform your approach to everything from getting dressed to hanging wallpaper. Turn your exasperated aaaaarrrrghs into confident ahhhhs!

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3347 in Books
• Published on: 2006-07-13
• Binding: Paperback
• 480 pages

Review
'Just what every modern girl needs.' (Glamour )

'This is the essential reference book any self-respecting aspiring socialite needs.'

(Guardian )

'Not only genuinely useful, but leaves you on a high, lifted by her breezy wit and addictively efferevescent attitude.'

(Mail on Sunday )

'Packed with handy hints on almost every aspect of contemporary life.'

(Independent, Books of the Year )

'Thoroughly modern...genuinely useful.'

(The Times, Books of the Year )

'From playing poker to climbing out of a car in a mini skirt, from tackling lobster to changing a tyre, it's the most fabulous instruction manual the world has ever seen, all told in Camilla's inimitable straight-talking, hilariously funny style.'

(Vogue.com )

Synopsis
From appreciating wine to understanding modern art, placing a bet to playing poker, wearing a hat to finding the mains, HOW TO WALK IN HIGH HEELS helps you navigate life's challenges with style. Camilla Morton has been ably assisted by a host of experts including Manolo Blahnik, who tells you How to Pick a Shoe, Gisele, who explains How to Look Good in a Photo and Anya Hindmarch, who reveals How to Pack a Suitcase. Funny and informative, filled with great quotes and fascinating facts this will transform your approach to everything from getting dressed to hanging wallpaper. Turn your exasperated aaaaarrrrghs into confident ahhhhs!

About the Author
Camilla Morton was attending fashion shows long before she was invited. She studied fashion at St Martins and spent her final year working at Vogue. She then moved to Paris to polish her look rahter than her French and worked for John Galliano at Christian Dior. She now lives in London and has written about fashion for The Times, the Telegraph Magazine, Harpers Bazaar and TIME, and is a contributing editor to Harpers and Queen.

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Customer Reviews

Useful if you've been living under a rock for your whole life...
A brief flick through this book led me to believe I might find this book entertaining and a useful reference tool. Oh, how wrong I was!

I will admit the author gives a very good argument for why you should treat yourself to expensive shoes, and I liked the writing style, which was quite witty.

However, the actual content of the book was rather lacking. It covered many subjects which I found particularly questionable (such as "How to Use A Remote Control". Like, really? Who on earth is this aimed at?!) but even those which actually could have been interesting, such as those on style and travelling, were frustratingly basic and lacking any new ideas at all.

The only type of reader that I would even consider recommending this to would be a very young girl; even then, I think she would have already gleaned more useful information on the subjects covered by reading teen magazines. If this were the target audience though, why the constant talk of designer shoes and the gardening section? Confusing.

How to be a shallow self-obssessed celebrity??
If you are self-conscious do not by this book as it will only make your self-consciousness worse!
It has to be one of the most superficial and patronising things I have ever read! Subsequently I haven't even managed to get past the first section `Greeting Your Public' due to utter disgust at what it has to say and by the way, Camilla, appearances are NOT everything.
I agree 100% with every other review in which this book was given two stars or less
I am just glad it was given to me as a present and i hadn;t actually spend money on it!
BIG disappointment!

Glossy, superficial, but entertaining nonetheless
I enjoyed this book. It's mostly quite witty, and sometimes very useful - Morton's fashion section is particularly well informed.
However, with each section, the narrative slows down - you can tell what her area of expertise is. It's a nice, lucid read, but there isn't a great deal of substance.
Morton sometimes comes across as being one of those women that conforms to the typical female stereotype (cook, clean, look pretty) - her political stance on which party to support was to choose the colour badge that would match your outfit the most. Despite some wry comments about this type of thing, you have to wonder why she'd write a book on how to be a girl if she didn't want to fall into the stereotype (and similarly, her readers).
Also, style and appearance is CONSTANTLY mentioned - you can't fix a tyre if it means that you'll mess up your hair, etc. This is quite annoying, but that is essentially the book's agenda.
Other than that, the book is very entertaining, and it certainly provides a very sketchy guide to most areas of thought. I'm giving it 4 stars, assuming that the reader had bought the book purely for the wit/amusing guides, such as "How to wear an apron with style".
Just don't buy this book for any of your feminist friends.