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brfmckay's review against another edition
3.0
It wasn't what I expected. If you like fashion, this might be the book for you. This woman leads her life relating to clothes and fashion, so the title is a bit misleading, though her dress plays a part. The book got better by the second half.
lorees_reading_nook's review against another edition
4.0
Some people have commented that this book is 'shallow' and, it probably is, because it is a book about clothes. Why we wear them, why we choose some colours over others, what they mean to us and how a particular item of clothing sometimes takes on a life and story of its own. We associate emotions with clothes, we remember people through the clothes they wore and which we may keep after their passing for sentimental reasons. This book explores our fascination, or lack of it, with clothes and the connection between clothes and literature.
Woven into this narrative are many personal glimpses into Picardie’s life and family and her encounters with designers such as Donatella Versace and Karl Lagerfeld.
This book has its faults, like too many parentheses and over-long ones at that, and there are a couple of chapters that go into too much unnecessary detail but, overall, I really enjoyed reading it.
Woven into this narrative are many personal glimpses into Picardie’s life and family and her encounters with designers such as Donatella Versace and Karl Lagerfeld.
This book has its faults, like too many parentheses and over-long ones at that, and there are a couple of chapters that go into too much unnecessary detail but, overall, I really enjoyed reading it.
caterinaanna's review
2.0
An oddly bitty book. I enjoyed some individual sections and end-of-chapter lists, but found paragraph-long parentheses rather wearing. I know I speak like that - and would write like it given the chance - so that is probably just a case of hating my own fault when I see it in another. The part that will stick in my mind is Erin O'Connor's story of catwalk torture rather than any of the never quite resolved explorations of family history inspired by an item of clothing or jewellery, or the descriptions of interviews that read like the bits that didn't quite make it into the article she was writing at the time.
[a:Diana Athill|25023|Diana Athill|http://www.goodreads.com/assets/nophoto/nophoto-U-50x66.jpg] does reflective musing much better.
[a:Diana Athill|25023|Diana Athill|http://www.goodreads.com/assets/nophoto/nophoto-U-50x66.jpg] does reflective musing much better.
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