Women in Clothes - Sheila Heti, Heidi Julavits, Leanne Shapton & 639 Others Color_IVORY SILK SHANTUNG

Women in Clothes - Sheila Heti, Heidi Julavits, Leanne Shapton & 639 Others Color_IVORY SILK SHANTUNGThis book is so good. It's more about getting dressed than being in style, and that's what makes it so compelling while some of the contributors are, yes, fashion people, most of them are just regular women outside the industry. It's a collection of essays, anecdotes, interviews, photographs, illustrations about, as Heidi Julavits puts it, the idiosyncratic and highly personalized beliefs about why we wear what we wear. Everyone's in here: Kim Gordon,

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A suuuuuuuper open-weave tie with hand-rolled edges is a little lighter and a little more relaxed than most of the others in your closet

the leather will get water and soap spots on it

who worshiped precious metals

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this one's worthy enough to keep on the bookshelf

one of those rare examples of an architect-designer's synthesis of great modernist design and decorative details recalling Baroque Italy

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