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...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 and the ABCs...
...vagaries of country music. Nashville is perhaps the most protocol-obsessed U.S. city outside of Washington, and McGraw is its smoothest operator. He has sold 30 million albums (his latest, Live Like You Were Dying, entered Billboard's album chart at No. 1) without being excessively cornpone or mindlessly pop. In the process, he has done what his predecessor Garth Brooks could not do: reach an audience outside his genre while remaining well liked within it. "Nashville hates anyone who has ambitions beyond Nashville," says a country record executive. "Shania, Garth Brooks get no respect in this town...
...well as his fairy-tale life with his wife, singer Faith Hill, and their three daughters, have made McGraw Nashville royalty and given him unprecedented freedom to venture outside the country ghetto. "I'm a country singer," he says summarily. "I open my mouth--hell, I couldn't go pop with a mouthful of firecrackers. But I'd be lying if I said I didn't love that kind of music and want that audience." Growing up in Start, La., McGraw was as much a fan of '70s AM radio as he was of Merle Haggard, and on McGraw...
...hits for Aretha Franklin, Marvin Gaye, James Brown and the Supremes during the 1950s and '60s. In 1968 he moved to New York City to join the McCann Erickson ad agency, where he came up with the 1971 Coke theme song, which was later turned into the pop hit I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (in Perfect Harmony...
Creative types have long been drawn to Berlin because of low rents, ample studio space and the relatively low cost of living. The German capital's last cultural heyday was in the 1970s, when the likes of David Bowie and Iggy Pop lived in the then divided city. Now musicians, artists and designers from as far afield as Denmark and Japan are giving Berlin a young vibe again--nearly half of its 3.4 million residents are under 35. "Berlin is not a rich city, so the scene is not at all about money or society or status," says Slimane. "People...