Dress Code. The Naked Truth About Fashion
“Arntzen writes passionately, clearly burdened by the urgency of the problem of how to square the important values in which fashion trades (beauty, belonging and self-expression etc) with the disastrous ethical and environmental costs it incurs.”
– The Times Literary Supplement (TLS)
“Brilliantly observed, Dress Code offers a timely expose of the influence of Fashion on everyday dress. A must read, even for those who think the way they dress has nothing to do with fashion.”
– Professor Jo Turney, Winchester School of Art
Fashion makes us beautiful, or at least can make us feel beautiful. Its glamour attracts us, but its superficiality repels us. The term ‘fashionable’ can be at once a compliment and an insult. Dress Code strips off the layers of the industry, revealing fashion as a phenomenon, a business and an art. This is a lively and honest account of how the culture of dress dominates everyday life.
