A Financial Times Book of the Year The first time I opened What Artists Wear, I gasped with pleasure. Imagine it as a kind of punk cousin to John Bergers Ways of Seeing, liberally illustrated with the most astonishing images of artists, decked out in finery or rags ... It transported me to somewhere glamorous, exciting, even revolutionary Olivia Laing, GuardianMost of us live our lives in our clothes without realizing their power. But in the hands of artists, garments reveal themselves. They are pure tools of expression, storytelling, resistance and creativity canvases on which to show who we really are.In What Artists Wear, style luminary Charlie Porter takes us on an invigorating, eyeopening journey through the iconic outfits worn by artists, in the studio, on stage, at work, at home and at play. From Yves Kleins spotless tailoring to the kaleidoscopic costumes of Yayoi Kusama and Cindy Sherman from Andy Warhols signature denim to Charlotte Prodgers casualwear, Porters roving eye picks out the magical, revealing details in the clothes he encounters, weaving together a new way of understanding artists, and of dressing ourselves.Part love letter, part guide to chic, and featuring generous photographic spreads, What Artists Wear is both a manual and a manifesto, a radical, gleeful, inspiration to see the world anewand find greater pleasure and possibility in the clothes we all wear.

Binding: Paperback;376 pages; Publisher: TBS-Penguin Random House Wholesale; Classification: ACXJ; Weight: 586 g; Dimensions: 180 x 147 x 32

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