by Patty Fox

Fashion and the Academy Awards -- they've become synonymous. Oscar^® night is not just about movies any more -- it's who wore what and how the celebrities looked in their finery. With more than a billion television viewers, the Academy Awards presentation is the biggest fashion show on earth. In Star Style at the Academy Awards^®, author Patty Fox showcases more than 150 stunning color and black-and-white photographs that capture the star-studded night. Fox has created the definitive book on Oscar^® fashion, from the very first Award ceremony in 1929 to the century's close in 1999. A longtime fashion consultant to the Academy Awards^® program, Fox tells the behind-the-scenes story of the historic gowns and the stars who wore them. View the rare photograph of Marilyn Monroe's first and last Oscar^® appearance; see Audrey Hepburn in her trademark Givenchy gowns; plus relish full-color photographs of the recent divas: Sharon Stone in the Gap and Valentino, Gwyneth Paltrow in Ralph Lauren, Uma Thurman in Prada, Jodie Foster in Armani. And the story doesn't stop with Hollywood's women watch men and children become scene stealers too. Costume designer extraordinaire Bob Mackie's rollicking foreword tells it like it is, from a Hollywood insider's point of view. For anyone who loves fashion and film -- Star Style at the Academy Awards^®.

An internationally recognized authority on dressing and image, Patty Fox is also the author of the best selling STAR STYLE: Hollywood Legends as Fashion Icons. Working directly with the stars who grace the Oscar^® stage, Ms. Fox has been a fashion coordinator for the Academy Awards show throughout the 1990s. As the West Coast fashion director for Saks Fifth Avenue, Fox introduced a receptive public to the collections of internationally renowned designers such as Karl Lagerfeld, Donna Karan and Christian Lacroix. Ms. Fox lives in Beverly Hills.