A Dedicated Follower of Fashion

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Phaidon Press, Oct 19, 1999 - Design - 232 pages

The clothes and accessories we wear and see every day are far 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 thought-provoking connections between fashion and the larger world around us, making this an essential book for fashion insiders as well as anyone who may be allured by popular culture and style.

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Contents

Introduction
7
Serial Dresser
14
Lifes a Beach
16
Copyright

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About the author (1999)

Holly Brubach is a journalist and consultant on fashion and the arts and currently Director of the Sport Collection and Home Collection for Prada. She was Style Editor of the New York Times Magazine, 1994-98 and was previously a writer for the New Yorker, the Atlantic and Vogue magazines.

Bibliographic information

TitleA Dedicated Follower of Fashion
AuthorHolly Brubach
PublisherPhaidon Press, 1999
Original fromIndiana University
DigitizedAug 14, 2009
ISBN071483887X, 9780714838878
Length232 pages
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