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Book review

‘Roots of Style’ by Isabel Toledo

By Christopher Muther

 |  Globe Staff  

  March 20, 2012

Most Americans were introduced to designer Isabel Toledo on Inauguration Day 2009 when style-savvy Michelle Obama lit up television screens around the globe wearing a lemongrass-hued lace coat and matching dress designed by Toledo for the event. Toledo devotes a healthy block of verbiage to the occasion in her fashion memoir, “Roots of Style,” a thoughtful chronicle of her journey from Cuban girlhood to adolescent immigrant in New Jersey, to artistically precocious club kid, and fashion superstar.

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