The Edit
The Power Suite
Made for the room you're walking into
SAM D'MONES is a New Jersey boutique for resort and occasion wear — Vivian Abreu's own designs alongside labels she sources as a stylist. Every piece is chosen to do one job: make you the most composed woman in the room, whether that room is a seaside lunch or a black-tie evening.
The hero piece
For the table you were told was full.
Part blazer, part corset, entirely commanding. The Champagne Authority Dress combines structured shoulders and cropped lapel detailing with a beautifully sculpted double-breasted bodice. Gold-tone buttons illuminate the soft champagne hue while the fitted midi silhouette celebrates the figure without sacrificing sophistication.
Style it: Metallic heels and a compact clutch are all it needs.
The Stylist
Vivian Abreu has been styling clients since 2020. SAM D'MONES is what she built with that education — her own designs alongside pieces she sources the way she'd shop for a client. Her book, Dressing Your Inner Drama Queen, is the philosophy. The store is the wardrobe.
The book
Why women dress for the life they're stepping into
Let’s talk about getting dressed.
Not the Instagram version — the real one. The one where you’ve been up since six, someone has wiped jam on your shoulder, and you are standing in front of a closet absolutely stuffed with clothes, thinking with total sincerity that you have nothing to wear. Darling, I have been there more times than I will admit in writing. I once spent eleven minutes holding a top trying to work out which hole was for my head. Eleven minutes! I style looks for a living!
This book is twenty chapters of everything I’ve learned since — as a stylist standing in other women’s closets, as a designer, and as a mom of twins who has not left the house without something sticky on her since roughly 2021.
We start where I start with every client: your colors, your body, and the perfectly good pieces you already own and have been ignoring. Then we build outward. Statement pieces. The art of layering, which I promise you is just building a very fashionable lasagna. How to shop like a superhero instead of coming home with four things you’ll never wear and one you’ll return. What to do with an occasion, a season change, and the faux pas worth knowing about before you commit to them in public.
Yes, motherhood is in here — three chapters of it. Diapers to designer, fashion for moms on the go, and how to match with your kids without either of you looking like you’re in costume. But this is not only a book for mothers. It’s a book for anyone who has ever stood at a mirror and negotiated.
And yes, there is a chapter on dressing for your star sign. Nineteen pages of it. I regret absolutely nothing!
Here’s the whole thesis, and you can have it free: you dress for the life you’re stepping into, not the one you’re leaving. Drama isn’t noise — drama is intent. Some outfits should scream and some should whisper, and knowing which is which is a skill, not a gift you were either born with or weren’t. You can learn it. That’s what the next 256 pages are for.
Now go on, gorgeous. Your inner drama queen has been waiting very patiently, and she has excellent taste.
— Vivian
P.S. Barnes & Noble in Paramus had me in as a featured author to sign these. I have never been so nervous holding a pen in my life!
Details
Format: Hardcover with dust jacket
Pages: 256
Size: 6" x 9"
Published: October 25, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-218-74031-3
Language: English