Design Your Life : Creating Success Through Personal Style

The internationally renowned designer and entrepreneur helps women look and be the very best version of themselves with this strong, sexy style guide filled with practical and inspirational tips and personal insights gleaned from her own journey in life and business.

“As a teen, I’d draw the type of glamorous clothes and accessories I longed for. In retrospect I realize that I was a designing the life I wanted and would one day achieve.”

As a designer, entrepreneur, philanthropist, and working mother, Rachel Roy has a unique perspective on how fashion defines who we are—and who we want to be. Growing up in a low-income neighborhood in California, she envisioned the life she lives today. The head of her own fashion business, she’s a successful, hard-working entrepreneur who believes through style we can help design the life we want to live.

Design Your Life is the embodiment of Rachel’s ethos—a style guide every woman, no matter what stage of life she is in, needs to help her define and implement her personal look, motivate her to focus on the person she wants to be and the job she aspires to have, and make choices based on where she wants to go. Rachel offers hands-on tips for developing personal style while staying true to yourself, using and updating what’s in your closest, and adding essential pieces to your wardrobe. Throughout, she shares stories from her own life and the vital role fashion and style has played each step of the way.

Elegantly designed and illustrated with more than fifty exclusive color line drawings, filled with her passion, vision, and commitment to empowerment, Design Your Life takes fashion one step further—from looking great to becoming great, from the inside out.

Rachel's personal playbook for designing your life, inside and out, includes:

• How to Dress for Success: Learn how Rachel went from the mailroom to creative director by dressing for the job she wanted, not the one she had.
• Wardrobe Essentials: Master the art of mixing masculine and feminine pieces—like the perfect blazer and tailored trousers—to create a signature look that’s both powerful and chic.
• The Vision Board Method: Discover Rachel's personal technique for using vision boards to call your aspirations into your life and stay motivated on your journey.
• Building Confidence from Within: Go beyond fashion with actionable advice on self-care, authenticity, and developing the self-respect needed to become the best version of yourself.

Rachel Roy founded her collection in 2004 and built it into a globally recognized and award-winning ready-to-wear and lifestyle brand. She is a sought-after speaker on entrepreneurship and philanthropy and has shared her story across the world, including at the White House. Rachel founded Kindness Is Always Fashionable as a philanthropic platform to help artisans create sustainable income for their families and communities. She is a member of the Council of Fashion Designers of America.