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The clothes and accessories we wear and see every day are more than just topics for the fashion literati: they provide rich clues to our personal identity and popular culture. This collection of 28 incisive essays by noted critic and 'fashion anthropologist' Holly Brubach looks at clothing and the fashion industry as barometers of cultural and aesthetic change. In essays published over the past two decades in the New York Times Magazine, the New Yorker and the Atlantic, Brubach reflects on a wide range of subjects, from famous designers such as Yves Saint Laurent, Jean-Paul Gaultier and Gianni Versace to designer eyeglasses, from the timeless elegance of a Chanel suit to the decline of elegance in the 1990s, and from formal French style to the advent of casual athletic clothing as a fashion uniform. Brubach's witty commentaries weave connections between fashion and the larger world around us, making this an essential book for fashion insiders as well as anyone interested in popular culture and style.
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Tony Geneau
reviewed A Dedicated Follower of Fashion on April 25, 2008
A Dedicated Follower of Fashion
Let it first be said that I find this book enjoyable. Like Sex and the City and Project Runway, it's a pleasure that I don't really understand and that doesn't seem to match my self-concept, but that tickles me all the same. However, I cannot FATHOM at whom this book was targeted, to whom it was marketed, or for whom it was successfully pitched. I mean, a book of essays about fashion I can see. Even one author's fashion oeuvre, okay. But. It's an oversized -- almost coffee-table sized -- hardback with thick, expensive-looking pages -- full of, um, prose. Every so often there's a two-page spread: a vaguely related photograph or, hey, just a wacky color (mostly spring tones, if that helps). Visually, it's a showpiece for an expensive and feminine (and spring-toned) living room; content-wise, it's a totally normal New Yorker style vanity anthology.
I couldn't help but wonder,
Wouldn't the person who would pay the $30+ for this book much more likely have spent that $30+ on one-tenth of a pair of shoes?
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