*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 Berger's 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, Guardian Most 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, eye-opening
journey through the iconic outfits worn by artists, in the studio,
on stage, at work, at home and at play. From Yves Klein's spotless
tailoring to the kaleidoscopic costumes of Yayoi Kusama and Cindy
Sherman; from Andy Warhol's signature denim to Charlotte Prodger's
casualwear, Porter's 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 anew-and find greater
pleasure and possibility in the clothes we all wear.
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