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Too Young to Be Old: How to Stay Vibrant, Visible, and Forever in Blue Jeans: 25 Secrets from TV's Jean Queen

Too Young to Be Old: How to Stay Vibrant, Visible, and Forever in Blue Jeans: 25 Secrets from TV's Jean Queen

Too Young to Be Old: How to Stay Vibrant, Visible, and Forever in Blue Jeans: 25 Secrets from TV's Jean Queen

Too Young to Be Old: How to Stay Vibrant, Visible, and Forever in Blue Jeans: 25 Secrets from TV's Jean Queen

Overview

Repeat after me: "Today is the youngest I will ever be. It's time to embrace my radiant Act 3."


If you've ever stopped believing in your dreams . . .
If you've ever said, "I'm too old. I'm too scared. I've made too many mistakes to get the life I want . . . "
If you've ever felt underestimated, invisible, or irrelevant . . .


Jean Queen Diane Gilman has the electrifying life story and the empowering life lessons you need right now. Diane found her greatest success at age sixty, when she sparked a denim revolution: designing blue jeans for real women with real bodies. She's sold nearly nineteen million pairs of her DG2 jeans on HSN and created a sisterhood of seven hundred thousand women who feel too young to be old.


With raw candor and humor, HSN's top fashion star reveals how she turned personal heartbreak into trailblazing success—and how her struggle with breast cancer became her bridge to love. Diane's twenty-five secrets for a vibrant, visible, relevant Act 3 will change your life.


Join Diane in her new mission, sparked by her DG2 sisters: "Let's show the world how cool aging can be."

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781637554531
Publisher: Amplify Publishing
Publication date: 11/29/2022
Pages: 352
Sales rank: 690,540
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Diane Gilman started designing clothes as soon as she could hold a crayon. She grew up in Los Angeles—a free spirit of the swingin' '60s, embroidering her blue jeans and energizing her creative soul by hanging out with the most talented musicians and poets of the time. Gilman's career ignited when stars like Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix began wearing her custom jeans. By 1974, her designs were featured in every major department store, and in 1994 she appeared on HSN, the Home Shopping Network, for the first time. Today, her DG2 line is the top-selling fashion brand on the network, with $100 million in sales per year. Gilman is known as the Jean Queen, because her age-defying designs have inspired women to live forever in blue jeans—and forever young.

Table of Contents

For My Fellow Blue Jean Believers: My Sisterhood of the Soul-Saving, Strength-Boosting, Spirit-Lifting Jeans-or Why I Wrote This Book 1

Prologue: My Winged Heart, Part I 5

Act I Blue Jean Baby

1 Birth of a Jean Queen 13

2 Phantom Lullaby 23

3 Destiny 39

4 Raw Magic 49

5 Mamie, the Monokini, and Me 57

6 Ticket to Ride 63

7 I'm a Hog for You, Baby 73

8 The Meaning of Janis 83

9 "Don't Scream. I'm In Jail." 93

Act II Jean Queen

10 Flowers in My Hair, Design on My Mind 107

11 Finding My Cabal 119

12 More, More, More 131

13 From Destruction to Renaissance 139

14 Spotted in the Shoe Department 147

15 Dust to Dust 155

16 Diane, Deconstructed and Reconstructed 163

17 Dawn of a Denim Revolution 177

18 Today's Special 189

19 The Penthouse That Jeans Built 201

20 Love and Bravery 213

Intermission: The Fight of My Life

21 Call Me Elisa 221

22 Hair 229

23 A Woman Like Me 235

24 Bohemian Rhapsody 245

25 Creating a Diamond from the Dust 251

Act III How to Rock Your Life at Every Age

26 Welcome to the Age of Illumination 261

27 Weaving the Story of Your Life 267

28 Wild Blue Wonders: Three Icons of Inspiration 275

29 Diane's Ultimate 25 287

30 A Beautiful Life Is Made One Stitch at a Time 323

Epilogue: My Winged Heart, Part II 329

Acknowledgments 331

About the Author 337

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