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Daily Mail
'More chic lit than chick lit… An alternative style bible for thinking fashionistas’
Guardian
[an]absorbing meditation on fashion and mourning..a courageously playful and questioning book
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This memoir touched me deeply. Through the medium of clothes and fashion Justine Picardie recalls incidents in her life and the lives of generations past. Years after her sister Ruth's death I could still see how much she is affected by her loss and how much her family and its roots mean to her. I could relate to how important it is to her to have a small piece of jewellery or article of clothing that belonged to someone she cared about, or even only knows through family stories which she painstakingly researches. A warm and tender book.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Here, Justine Picardie (a fashion journalist) writes about clothes in a way that she never really touches on in the pages of the glossy magazines she writes for. Here she writes about how strongly evocative clothes are for her of people and places she mourns and treasures in equal measure. The chapters are episodic in nature, but hang together with a sense of nostalgia and happiness tinged with loss. She talks of individual pieces and the stories behind them, how they shaped and continue to shape her life and the way she feels. It is moving, intimate and lovely.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
You don't have to be a fashionista to be sucked in by Picardie's fascinating mix of memoir, interviews, history and criticism: you just have to love clothes. Iconic bits of her wardrobe -- her mother's little black wedding dress, teen PVC trousers, a Ghost sheath -- are dissected with the help of her (well-dressed) literary heroines Holly Golightly, Pippi Longstocking and du Maurier's Rebecca, plus the ever watchful Dr Freud. We glimpse frank interview notes on Donatella Versace and Karl Lagerfeld. Yet through the fabric of this work runs the thread of loss -- a lost sister, lost clothes, lost dreams -- and that's the truly absorbing part.
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