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From Lucy to Jo: Thank you, Jo Piazza, for showing me how to work my iPad and being a complete joy to work with and for being a great friend and Fit Bitch who inspires me constantly.

From Jo to Lucy: Thank you, dear Imogen…I mean Lucy, for all of your wonderful ideas, your limitless creativity, your contagious passion and your inspiring use of emoji.

We have an entire village of incredible people to thank for helping take this book from a nugget of an idea to the store shelves. Thank you, Luke “Gamechanger!” Janklow, for seeing the vision before anyone else did. Thank you, Alexandra Machinist, for being the best damn superagent a first-time author could have hoped for. We could not have done this without our incredibly talented editor, the constant optimist, Jennifer Jackson. Your liner notes are one of our favorite things to Instagram. Will Heyward deserves a halo and a cocktail for dealing with all of our handwritten edits. We are so lucky to have Maxine Hitchcock and the whole Penguin team in the United Kingdom on our side. You make us feel like rock stars even when we are having a bad hair day.

Thank you, Francesco Clark, for always making us want to be better.

Neither of us could have made this writing partnership happen
without the constant support of Chloe, the greatest, most tech-savvy nanny on the planet (and the inspiration for the inimitable Tilly).

Plum Sykes, Tom Sykes, Alice Sykes, Valerie Sykes, Fred Sykes, Josh Sykes, Alastair and Annalisa Rellie, Jemima Rellie, Katie Dance, Lucasta and Kevin Cummings, we would not be writing these acknowledgments without you. Euan Rellie, you win two awards: best husband and best book promoter ever.

The support of The Li.st cannot be quantified. You helped us both believe that we have a future in this brave new world of technology.

Thank you to all of our supportive friends, mentors and inspirations (both online and in real life):

Maxi Sloss, Sandra Ellis, Charlotte Clark, Sara Costello, Claude Kaplan, Lenore and Sean Mahoney, Gin Boswick, Podo, Lucy Guinness, Kara Liotte, Ben Widdicombe, Colleen Curtis, Glynnis MacNicol, Allison Gandolfo, Leah Chernikoff, Tracy Taylor, Toby Young, Amanda Foreman, Mary Alice Stephenson, Amanda Ross, Ann Caruso, Lloyd Nathan, Betsy Rhodes, Donald Robertson, Jennifer Sharp, Mary Shanahan, Paul Cavaco, Paula Froelich, Jaclyn Boschetti, Pamela Fiori, Glenda Bailey, Rachel Sklar, Bob Morris, Hailey Lustig, Jane Friedman, Natalie Massenet, Tristan Skylar, Dee Poku, Patrick Demarchelier, Pamela Henson, Oberto Gili, Ted Gibson, Cynthia Rowley, Christian Louboutin, Vera Wang, Michael Davies, Thom Browne, Bart Baldwin, Zac Posen and Grace Chang.

Thank you to Flybarre and our trainer (yes, we share one) Emily Cook Harris for the exercise highs that kept us going on countless yummy brunches together at Café Cluny.

LUCY SYKES
has worked in the fashion world as a stylist, fashion editor and fashion director. For six years she was the fashion director at
Marie Claire
, and was most recently fashion director for Rent the Runway. Her children’s clothing line, Lucy Sykes New York, was sold in more than one hundred department stores worldwide, including Saks Fifth Avenue, Barneys, Bergdorf Goodman and Nordstrom. Together with her twin sister Plum, she moved from London to New York City in 1997, where she now lives with her husband and two children.

JO PIAZZA
is the managing editor of Yahoo Travel and a regular contributor to
The Wall Street Journal
. Her work has appeared in
The New York Times, New York, Glamour, Gotham
, the Daily Beast, and Slate. She is the author of
Celebrity, Inc.: How Famous People Make Money, If Nuns Ruled the World: Ten Sisters on a Mission
, and a novel,
Love Rehab: A Novel in Twelve Steps
. She lives in New York City with her giant dog.