WOMEN IN CLOTHES - a book unlike any other

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 dress. 

 About the authors:

Sheila Heti is the author of five books, including the critically acclaimed How should a person be? And an illustrated book for children, We need a Horse. She frequently collaborates with other artists and writers.

Heidi Julavits is the author of four novels, most recently The Vanishers, winner of the PEN New England Award. She is a founding editor of The Believer and a professor of Columbia University.

Leanne Shapton is a Canadian artist, author and publisher based in New York City. She is the author if Important Artifacts… and Swimming Studies, winner of the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography

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