Welcome to the latest edition of Looks from Books, which aims to prove that you can look smart, while still being book-smart, too. Fashion inspiration can be found between the pages of your favorite stories, on well-designed book covers, and in your favorite characters… if you read closely enough.

This week, we’re getting inspired by a recent trailer release… and the recommendations of my mother, who suggested I do a “Looks from Books” column on this story when I first got this writing position. Here’s Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s The Little Prince! 

Cover via Amazon

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Inside Cover

The Little Prince is a work of children’s fiction published in 1943 by notable French aristocrat, poet, and writer, Antoine de Saint-Exupery.

It follows the story of a pilot who crash-lands in a desert and meets a strange little boy who tells him the story of his life among the stars, where he lived on an asteroid with his companion, the rose. He travels across planets, meeting other asteroid inhabitants who are all individually wrapped up in their own sets of problems, but on Earth, he comes to be good friends with a philosophical fox he tames, as well as a snake, who says he can send the Prince back to his own little planet through just a bite from his lethal poison.

Though the book was written for children, it also notably contains commentary on the social realm of adults, as well as loneliness and loss.

The novel has been translated into over 250 languages and dialects from its original French, and is one of the best-selling books ever published, with annual sales topping over 140 million copies worldwide. 

A Fashionable Literacy

While the novel has been adapted for numerous formats, including stage, screen, radio, opera, and ballet, the work still gained international attention once again last week when the French trailer was released for the upcoming 2015 film adaptation, Le Petit Prince.