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Americans never seem to lose faith in the possibility of self-reinvention. This fall, three new books offer inspiration and advice on how to become--or at least dream about becoming--one's most stylish self. Metamorphosis (Abrams; 192 pages) catalogs hair stylist Serge Normant's transformations of ubermodels, actresses and pop starlets into goddesses, geishas and queens for the pages of fashion magazines. For self-helpers without access to a team of stylists, there's The Fashionista Files (Ballantine Books; 339 pages). This primer provides would-be style mavens with sample-sale survival skills, tips on befriending shopkeepers...
FREDERIC FEKKAI CELEBRITY HAIR STYLIST...
...house purchase, ask your bank to deny you a mortgage. At dinner, don't commit the cheese-course gaffe of cutting the tips off Brie and Camembert wedges; instead try the fragrant Cantal, "like soft Cheddar, with a hint of athlete's foot." As a prose stylist, Clarke can't hold a cheese knife to legions of past Anglo-Saxon observers like Mark Twain and Janet Flanner (or even to Mayle). But Merde has a lively plot - West's French boss is up to no good - plus an element missing in many such tomes: sex. The hero's success...
...familiarize herself with machine parts. Three years ago, hoping to encourage others to follow in her footsteps, Howard launched a math-and-science mentoring program for at-risk junior high school girls. Fighting cultural pressures takes time; one talented math student told Howard she planned to be a hair stylist. Still, Howard hopes the program will help steer more young women into robotics, a field she says that within a decade will produce robots that mimic human thought processes. "This isn't about mechanics," says Howard. "It's about creating something new, something like us but different--something that...
...Norway" is usually code for "small in non-glaciated countries," but the half-Norwegian Mena has a voice that fits on American pop radio while also setting her apart from all the other teen girls with a stylist. She scats her way through the verses, which allows her to fit in lots of sensitive/spooky Morissette-ish ramblings ("I probably forgot to tell you this/Like that time when I forgot to tell you about the scar/Remember how uncomfortable that made you feel?"). Then she hits the high notes in the chorus with surprising joy and clarity...