"Everyone who is smart says they hate fashion, that´s such a waste of time. I have asked many superserious people, "Then why is fashion so popular?" Nobody can answer this question" (Miuccia Prada)
This book is wise and great fun and clever. It gives you freedom and air to breeze in that world of pressures about being chic, efficient, glamourous and manageable, predictable and considerate all at the same time. And it gives you something to laugh, it does!
I have read it already some while ago and now it fell again in my hands - Hadley Freeman is a New Yorker, living and working in London, writing there for Vogue and The Guardian - being in the middle of it, indeed.
Her book is such relief for the thinking woman of our times, getting finally an excuse, why we love fashion and why we so often prefer to do our own thing, instead of slavishly following the dicatorship of our beloved glossy magazines - I mean, WHO gets dressed as french Vogue would like us to be???
Freeman gives in short and highly readable chapters her thoughts about money, grooming, the last It-bag, exercise, the need of an excuse to buy a dress and all that sort of problems, a thinking woman in this fashion world could have.
Just to give you a taste of her lines:
"Prada - the frumpy, but fashionable"
"Manicures, pedicures and the ever-rising bar of personal upkeep"
"Jeans, not as bulletproof as they tell you"
"Haute Couture, taking self-indulgence to a whole new level"
"Velvet, and why it should be banned"
"Magazines, fashion, and women´s masochistic love thereof"
And on goes the list...
You see, lots of fun here to be had, and words of wisdom. If you get your hands on this book, get it and give it to your friends, they will love you and the book!
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