The Tamesis
When Mikaela Dery begins her reading series fashion novel About a year ago, it became a way to merge her two great passions: fashion and literature. By day, while working as a literary event planner in the midst of a particularly cold winter in Delhi, she decided to reread Plum Sykes’ 2004 novel bergdorf blonde. Finally, Sykes recalls her long experience Fashion Deli’s favorite “Fashion Fiction” column is full of sparks.
“I think literary fashion writing can be such a great series that I could call it ‘fashion fiction,’ even though you don’t have to read the novel,” Derry explains. She asked Sykes to use the name, and he was granted permission.
In Dery’s collection, fashion writing is treated as a true literary art form. “What I really like is decoupling fashion from commerce; [following] “It’s an intellectual pursuit,” she says, “and I think that’s what really excites me: that fashion can be part of your spiritual life.”
There is only some time left before the first anniversary of its establishment. fashion novel Now, the brand has collaborated with writers such as Zoe Dubno, Doreen St. Félix, Rachel Syme and Katie Roiphe, and with brands such as Warby Parker and Serviette fragrances. The event remains free and, as Derry puts it, “once a month,” rotating at several venues around town. So far, it has developed a cult following, with each book being sold out within hours or even minutes.
In its most recent iteration, readers and spectators filed into Surrender Dorothy on West 17th Street, sipping wine in vintage clothing. I found at least two pairs of vintage Chanel flats, a Marilyn Monroe mini dress and a spice world T-shirt paired with a plaid pencil skirt. Reader Jonathan Woolen praised ” superstarThe classic French novel “,” by Ann Scott, is available for purchase next to a crown and a cluster of sparkling rhinestones. In a small theater upstairs (the store’s building belongs to the actors), almost every seat was filled.
Writers can read anything in any genre – whether it’s their own work or by someone they admire – as long as it has something to do with fashion. Actress and partner of Dorothy the Surrender Ruby McCollister shared a story about an antique mall in Mansfield, Ohio. Amanda Lee Burkett from Substack You can talk about it, but only with meread selected novels nine and a half weeks As Burkett quipped, Ingeborg Day (aka Elizabeth MacNeil) described the main male character’s wardrobe before “all the psychosexual stuff happened.” Author David Bryant reveals his relationship with the aesthetics and attitude of basketball and the great Allen Iverson. Read from superstarBy Jonathan Woolen Set against the backdrop of a French queer carnival in the late 1990s, writer Elisa Gonzalez shares a selection of celebratory costumes from a project she is working on. The whole time, the audience was rapt.
