Narrative Thread: Conversations on Fashion Collections (O'Flaherty Mark C.)(Paperback)

Our clothes are some of our most emotionally charged possessions. Sometimes we hold onto them for obvious reasons - the wedding dress you will almost certainly never fit into again, or the favorite alpaca overcoat you inherited from a parent, still imprinted with the faint smell of a long-discontinued fragrance. At other times clothes take root in our lives in different ways, from less obvious paths, yet you still can't part with them. Sometimes, as a result, without our quite realizing it, a 'wardrobe' becomes a 'collection'. Mark C. O'Flaherty draws together conversations around collecting fashion from those 'collectors' whose passion for clothes developed into something deeply significant in their lives, with commentary by three leading scholars in the fashion world, on fashion and identity, design and memory. The result is a unique contribution to our understanding of
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