Fashion Writing

A witty and provocative collection of the best twentieth-century writing about what we wear and why, with pieces by nearly 200 authors, including:

• W. H. Auden • Julie Burchill • A. S. Byatt Albert Camus
• Angela Carter • Quentin Crisp • Christian Dior • Marguerite Duras • Bret Easton Ellis •F. Scott Fitzgerald •
• Linda Grant • Germaine Greer • Nick Hornby
• Aldous Huxley • Christopher Isherwood
• Franz Kafka • Hanif Kureishi • Malcolm X
• Gabriel García Márquez • Daphne Du Maurier
• Jay McInerney • Nancy Mitford • Alice Munro
• Vladimir Nabokov • George Orwell • Marcel Proust
• Mary Quant • Will Self • Muriel Spark • Andy Warhol
• P. G. Wodehouse • Tom Wolfe • Virginia Woolf