Clothes Minded: Fashionable Essays About Finding Yourself
A collection of essays exploring how what we wear reveals who we are.
Inside the Book
Prologue
The Nineties
French Girls Don't Wear Ann Taylor
Saturday Mornings with Elsa Klensch
Love Lessons from Trina Turk
You Never Forget Your First in Ann Demeulemeester
Saying Goodbye Too Soon in OshKosh
The Aughts
Wearing My Heart on My Cynthia Rowley Sleeve
Preparing America in Prada Flats
Starving in Marc Jacobs Skinny Jeans
Some Devils Wear Calvin
Super Saturday in Tory Burch Tunics
Urban Myth Manolos
Wild about Calvin Klein Cosmetics
Lifelong Love and Monique Lhuillier Lace
The Tens
Multiples in J.Crew
The Present
Open Minded
Epilogue
Famous Last Words
Fashion is a metaphor, a tangible expression of the intangible:
the moments of doubt, triumph and transformation that define us.
FAMOUS
LAST
WORDS
Sarah Clary · Stylist
Stacy London · TV personality, Author, Stylist, Mid-life/Menopause Advocate
Nikki Kule · Founder, KULE
Meg Strachan · Founder, Dorsey
April Gargiulo · Founder, Vintner's Daughter
Megan Papay · Co-founder, FREDA SALVADOR
Roz Kaur · Stylist + Pro-Age Activist
Joyce Lee · Creative Director
Daryl K · Fashion Designer
Tiffany Wendel · Stylist
April Uchitel · CEO + Founder, THE BOARD
Christine Morrison · Author
Praise
Clothes Minded gives you a real, unfiltered look into the messy, magnetic heart of the fashion world back in the '90s and early 2000s. I couldn't put it down—I was too busy reliving (and quietly rethinking) a whole chapter of life that just doesn't exist anymore. In her sharp, honest essays, Christine Morrison digs into the questions that stay with you long after the trends disappear: What did it all really mean? How did those years shape us?
I loved it. The book still sits on my bedside table—I pick it up whenever I need a quick shot of inspiration or that little reminder of why we keep doing what we do.
— Laura Vinroot Poole, Founder + CEO Capitol
They say our sense of smell is the strongest trigger for memory, but Clothes Minded turns that idea on its head. Christine Morrison's essays reminded me that our clothes often spark our deepest recollections. Her writing took me back to my own fashion moments: the vintage Yves Saint Laurent patent-orange heels that helped me land my first fashion editorial job before my editor even looked at my writing portfolio!
Clothes Minded is a tapestry of sharp observations and is ultimately less about fashion than it is about identity, reflection, and the stories we wear.
— Dahlia Devkota, Founder, Editrix
Clothes Minded captures the transformative power of the clothes we wear and the stories they hold. Sharp, stylish and unexpectedly heartfelt, this collection of personal essays had me reliving my own fashion eras and the style reinventions that shaped my life and career. It's a fashion biography that resonates far beyond the closet.
— Lori Singer, President Parlux Fragrances
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