Make Life Beautiful is the autobiography from Syd and Shea McGee, which offers fans a new and intimate look into how they built their business.
UPDATED & EXPANDED EDITION of the
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, including
- A full-color, sixteen-page insert with photos that capture Syd & Shea's journey
- An epilogue about life and business post-pandemic and the success of the hit Netflix show Dream Home Makeover
Make Life Beautiful is the autobiography from Syd and Shea McGee, which offers fans a new and intimate look into how they built their business.
Want to live the best version of your life? Read this book and learn how Syd and Shea prioritized their values, defined their goals, and put their dreams into action going from flat broke to design superstars all while following their motto to "make life beautiful." Most importantly, discover how you can do the same!
For the one million-plus followers who turn to Syd and Shea McGee for advice on building a beautiful home and life,
Make Life Beautiful is a behind-the-scenes look into how the couple transformed Shea's small room of fabric samples and big dream of becoming a designer into one of the most successful and fastest-growing interior design businesses in the country.
Both longtime and new fans will not only gain insight into how the McGees built such a successful company but also be inspired to build an authentic life by applying design principles such as
- Embrace the process
- Get to the next level
- Find balance
- Elevate the everyday
This is an essential book for
- Entrepreneurs
- Interior designers
- Working parents
- Couples building family and career
- Self-starters
- Anyone chasing their dreams
Industry Reviews
"This gripping book about the empire and murder of Maurizio Gucci ... reveals the ugly truth behind fashion's most fabulous family."
Glamour
"A business book you will zip through like a novel. ... Forden has whipped up a mixture of family drama and high finance into a tasty and complex narrative."
The Economist 'A Best Book of the Year'
"Racy, fast-paced. ... Reads like a movie script. ... Hard to put down. ... Forden gets that famous Gucci bar-and-bit between her teeth -and gallops along."
International Herald Tribune
"A penetrating chronicle of the rise and fall of a family business. ... Even by the Borgia-like standards of the fashion industry, the operatic Guccis were special. Not content with the usual familial stew of love, jealousy and greed, they added tax evasion, bigamy and, yes, murder to the mix."
Wall Street Journal
"Riveting reading."
Cosmopolitan
"A riveting account of the talent and creative chaos that built one of the world's great luxury-goods empires and the egotism, bitter family conflict, and incompetence that nearly destroyed it."
Bloomberg
"Fashion has never been so dramatic-and dangerous. The saga of three generations of the Gucci family opens with an execution-style murder in Milan and penetrates the world of one of the hottest fashion labels of our time. Fashion insider Sara Forden spins the tale of how a bunch of greedy, bickering Guccis lost control of the empire that made GG synonymous with loafers."
Teri Agins author of The End of Fashion
"Glamour, greed, sex, style, and very, very good leather goods - what more can you ask for (besides a 30 percent discount)?"
Michael Gross bestselling author of Model and 740 Park
