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Women in Clothes

Women in Clothes

Why We Wear What We Wear

by Leanne ShaptonHeidi Julavits and Sheila Heti
Paperback
Publication Date: 06/10/2014

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Women in Clothes is a book unlike any other. It is essentially a conversation among hundreds of women of all nationalities - famous, anonymous, religious, secular, married, single, young, old - on the subject of clothing, and how the garments we put on every day define and shape our lives. It began with a survey. The editors composed a list of more than fifty questions designed to prompt women to think more deeply about their personal style. Writers, activists and artists including Cindy Sherman, Kim Gordon, Kalpona Akter, Sarah Nicole Prickett, Tavi Gevinson, Miranda July, Sasha Grey, Lena Dunham and Molly Ringwald answered these questions with photographs, interviews, personal testimonies and illustrations. Even our most basic clothing choices can give us confidence, show the connection between our appearance and our habits of mind, express our values and our politics, bond us with our friends and function as armour or disguise. They are the tools we use to reinvent ourselves and to transform how others see us. Women in Clothes embraces the complexity of women's style decisions, revealing the sometimes funny, sometimes strange, always telling impulses that influence our daily ritual of getting dressed.
ISBN:
9781846148354
9781846148354
Category:
Fashion & society
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
06-10-2014
Language:
English
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
528
Dimensions (mm):
224x176x44mm
Weight:
1.05kg

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