Narrative Thread: Conversations on Fashion Collections

"I adored this book and can't recommend it highly enough" - Cathy Horyn
"Beautifully executed" - Norma Kamali
"A visual feast" - Giles Deacon
"Entertaining, thought-provoking, and serious. Read it and learn." - Colin McDowell

"Clothes from our past shape who we are, and who we will be. Why do we hold on to certain garments and what do they tell us and others about our lives?"

Mark C. O'Flaherty asks 14 individuals who work with or use clothes in a unique way: how has fashion created something significant in your life? Through fascinating conversations, and photoshoots of their private collections, in New York, London and Milan, he constructs a portrait of each person through their intimate relationships with fashion, featuring The Idiosyncratic Fashionistas, Charlie Casely-Hayford, John Matheson (McQueen Vault), Sandy Powell, Stephen Jones, Carla Sozzani, Winn Austin, Carmen Haid, Susanne Bartsch, Karlo Steel, Karim Rashid, Steven Philip, and Desmond is Amazing.

How have these people used fashion as a vessel for memory or identity to develop their own narratives, and what does our relationship with clothing say about its changing nature as a commodity? With a foreword by influential fashion tastemaker Amanda Harlech, and opening conversations with three of fashion's most respected scholars, Valerie Steele, Andre Walker and Claire Wilcox, Narrative Thread is an eye-opening resource for our understanding of fashion's past and present - and its continuing importance in our lives.

Author: Mark C. O'Flaherty
Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Published: 10/19/2023
Pages: 306
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.90lbs
Size: 9.30h x 7.80w x 1.00d
ISBN13: 9781350287662
ISBN10: 1350287660
BISAC Categories:
- Design | Fashion & Accessories
- Design | History & Criticism

About the Author
Mark C. O'Flaherty has been a design journalist and photographer based between London and New York for over 20 years. He is a contributor to some of the most high-profile luxury lifestyle publications in the world. As a photographer he has shot for Issey Miyake, Hermès, Yamamoto, Mouret and von Furstenberg, among others, and interviewed and contributed to international editions of Esquire, Elle Decoration, Vogue, Sunday Times Style, The Times, The Telegraph, Financial Times Weekend and Financial Times How to Spend It. After graduating from his film degree, he pursued a career in journalism, spending most of the early 1990s documenting the club scene in London and New York, then moving into interiors and fashion at the turn of the century.