The Pimlico Companion To Fashion: A Literary Anthology - Tapa blanda

"This good-humoured anthology acquires the allure of a catwalk: relentlessly paced; designed to surprise, to excite and delight." (Jennifer Potter Times Literary Supplement)

"It is delightful to find fashion treated with respect... Wonderfully funny...Open it where you will and you will be amused." (Hardy Amies Daily Telegraph)

"A treasure of an anthology." (Harriet Quick Guardian)

"An elegant collection... A volume as uplifting to the spirits as a Proper Frock from Paris." (Jane Shilling Sunday Telegraph)

"The book is beautifully paced, its long passages punctuated by sharp, epigrammatic observations, their truth enhanced by their economy... This book is a must for any student of literature, human nature and, of course, fashion." (Nicholas Foulkes Country Life)

From Ovid to Malcolm X, The Ladies Magazine to Punch, Mary Wollstone-craft to Anita Loos, William Hazlitt to D. H. Lawrence, Thomas Carlyle to Brett Easton Ellis, Fanny Burney to Jean Genet, Virginia Woolf to Milan Kundera, dress has stimulated comments at all levels - whether witty, ironic, moralistic, critical or simply sensual. Using letters, journals and memoirs, as well as novels, poetry and plays, and covering over four hundred years of writing, including British, Irish, American and European literature, The Pimlico Companion to Fashion is surely the ultimate collection about dress.