Faux Chic

The arts.

Say Bonjour to Green Cuisine—it’s the new French way to be healthy, happy, and stylish, bien sûr! No one does food and lifestyle like the French! That’s why the French approach to clean, green eating adds a dash of flair—or a drizzle of decadence—to even the humblest of fruits, veggies, and legumes. In this cheerful, charming cookbook, Rebecca Leffler shows you how they do it. She introduces her “best friend foods” like sweet potatoes and chia, whirlwinds through an entire rainbow of juices and smoothies, and keeps the focus on fitness, food, and fun in equal measures. Globally inspired, but with lots of French accents, all 150 plant-based recipes are free of gluten, soy, and refined sugar. Rebecca organizes them the natural way: by season. Feed your body what it needs during . . .Spring: Beet Rawvioli with Faux-mage, White Asparagus Velouté, Le “Chic” CakeSummer: Salade Niçoise, Cabinet Curry, “Split”-Second Banana Ice CreamFall: Sobeautiful Soba Salad, Beauty Bourguignon, Pancrêpes, Apple Tarte TatinWinter: Totally Wild Stuffed Squash, Amaranth Caviar, Happy Hazelnut Quinoa Bowl. Plus, enjoy Rebecca’s mood-boosting tips year round: natural beauty treatments, illustrated yoga poses, and positive playlists to sing along with as you peel, mince, and stir. Having to choose between pleasure and health is so last season. It’s time to say non to unhealthy foods and oui to color, flavor, variety, and smiles!

African Fashion, Global Style provides a lively look at fashion, international networks of style, material culture, and the world of African aesthetic expression. Victoria L. Rovine introduces fashion designers whose work reflects African histories and cultures both conceptually and stylistically, and demonstrates that dress styles associated with indigenous cultures may have all the hallmarks of high fashion. Taking readers into the complexities of influence and inspiration manifested through fashion, this book highlights the visually appealing, widely accessible, and highly adaptable styles of African dress that flourish on the global fashion market.

Few phenomena embody the notion of time as well as fashion. Fast-moving and rooted in the 'now', it's constantly creating its own past through the process of rapid style change. Uniquely poised between the past and the future, fashion's relationship with time is unorthodox. Rather than considering time in the conventional sense, this anthology explores three alternative ways to think about fashion and time: the first identifies the seasonal nature of fashion as an industry, and shows how this has impacted on workers and wearers alike. The second looks at fashion design as a ceaseless process of adaptation, reconstruction and recombination of motifs, in which nostalgia and revivals play their part. The third construes fashion's 'imaginary', with its capacity for fantasy and myth-making, as a form of alternate history that asks 'what if?' Within this framework, key classic texts are juxtaposed with lesser known ones, in an interdisciplinary approach that includes philosophy, history, literature, media and fashion design, ranging from the 18th century to the present. It will be of interest to anyone wishing to understand one of the most complex yet inescapable aspects of fashion, its relationship to time, and will be a critical resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students in the humanities and all those interested in fashion in all its creative, commercial and cultural aspects.

Why settle for a sponge-painted wall when you can design your whole house in faux decor? With this elegant and imaginative approach to faux chic, you can transform the most ordinary space into a true showplace-without breaking the bank. With phenomenal mother-daughter design team Carol Endler Sterbenz and Genevieve A. Sterbenz as your guides, you'll master the Faux Chic philosophy of style, color, comfort, and charm in no time-and make over your home in the process.

A noir novel, a breath-taking thriller, a compelling detective story. The reader will be completely captivated by this novel which can be read in one sitting. The story takes place in a New York that is as dark as the shady inhabitants who lurk in the winding alleys. Will Carter be able to figure out the right way without getting into trouble? The answer can only be found at the end of the book. Peter Noel Duhamel, a former Assistant United States Attorney in New York City, is a licensed private investigator. Born in Boston, where he attended law school, he spent most of his life in NYC before moving to Corfu, Greece, where he now lives and writes. As well as working as a professional actor in NY, LA and Beijing, Peter produced and directed “Hell’s Kitchen”, a feature shown at the South by Southwest and Belgium International film festivals, and the documentary “Islam Muslims counterterrorism ... a mosaic”, which was nominated for Best Feature Documentary and Best Direction at the London and Nice international film festivals and selected for the World Independent Cinema Awards. In addition, he has taught at the Chinese People’s Public Security University in Beijing and has been published in professional legal journals.