Join us for a special book event and panel discussion with author Emily Spivack to celebrate her new book, Worn Stories, a collection of clothing-inspired narratives from cultural figures and talented storytellers.
Emily Spivack will be joined by three contributors: Dapper Dan, fashion designer and pioneer of hip-hop style Kenneth Goldsmith, author, poet, and artist Jenna Wortham, cultural critic and New York Times technology reporter
Panel discussion followed by booksigning. Books will be available for purchase.
About the book: Everyone has a memoir in miniature in at least one piece of clothing. In Worn Stories, Emily Spivack has collected over sixty of these clothing-inspired narratives. First-person accounts range from the everyday to the extraordinary, such as artist Marina Abramovic on the boots she wore to walk the Great Wall of China musician Rosanne Cash on the purple shirt that belonged to her father and fashion designer Cynthia Rowley on the Girl Scout sash that informed her business acumen. Other contributors include Greta Gerwig, Heidi Julavits, John Hodgman, Brandi Chastain, Marcus Samuelsson, Piper Kerman, Maira Kalman, Sasha Frere-Jones, Simon Doonan, Albert Maysles, Susan Orlean, Andy Spade, Paola Antonelli, David Carr, Andrew Kuo, and more.
By turns funny, tragic, poignant, and celebratory, Worn Stories offers a revealing look at the clothes that protect us, serve as a uniform, assert our identity, or bring back the past-clothes that are encoded with the stories of our lives.
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