Worn Stories
About this book
New York Times Bestseller! Now a Netflix original series Everyone has a memoir in miniature in at least one piece of clothing. In Worn Stories, Emily Spivack has collected over sixty of these clothing-inspired narratives from cultural figures and talented storytellers. First-person accounts range from the everyday to the extraordinary, such as artist Marina Abramovic on the boots she wore to walk the Great Wall of China; musician Rosanne Cash on the purple shirt that belonged to her father; and fashion designer Cynthia Rowley on the Girl Scout sash that informed her business acumen. Other contributors include Greta Gerwig, Heidi Julavits, John Hodgman, Brandi Chastain, Marcus Samuelsson, Piper Kerman, Maira Kalman, Sasha Frere-Jones, Simon Doonan, Albert Maysles, Susan Orlean, Andy Spade, Paola Antonelli, David Carr, Andrew Kuo, and more. By turns funny, tragic, poignant, and celebratory, Worn Stories offers a revealing look at the clothes that protect us, serve as a uniform, assert our identity, or bring back the past—clothes that are encoded with the stories of our lives.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- Andy Spade
- Simon Doonan
- Greta Gerwig
- Ross Intelisano
- Niki Russ Federman
- Brian Balderston
- Margaret D. Stetz
- Rosanne Cash
- David Carr
- Ariel Schrag & Matt Wolf
- Kelly Jones
- Brandi Chastain
- Jeff Zimbalist
- Jill Meisner
- Kenneth Goldsmith
- Pat Mahoney
- Laura Jane Kenny
- Meghan O’Rourke
- Kayla Klepac
- Jonathan Levine
- Yael Meridan Schori
- Albert Maysles
- Paola Antonelli
- Catherine Pierce
- April Bloomfield
- Brian Dwyer
- Debbie Millman
- Harvey
- Susan Orlean
- Stephen Elliott
- Emily Spivack
- Piper Kerman
- Sabrina Gschwandtner
- Dorothy Finger
- James Johnson III
- Dustin Yellin
- Cynthia Rowley
- Marina Abramović
- Edith Raymond Locke
- Kathleen Drohan
- Tiler Peck
- Miss Lisa
- Jenna Wortham
- Andrew Tarlow
- Jeremy Bailey
- Brian Droitcour
- Lindsey Thornburg
- Kitty Stryker
- Andrew Kuo
- Davy Rothbart
- Maira Kalman
- Tito
- Dapper Dan
- Sasha Frere-Jones
- Tamara Santibanez
- Courtney Maum
- John Hodgman
- Heidi Julavits
- Elisabeth Subrin
- Rachel Comey
- Marcus Samuelsson
- Sanya Kantarovsky
- Susan Bennett
- Pamela Jones
- Karuna Scheinfeld
- Sherry Turkle
- Becky Stark
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
