The Luxe - A Brief Examination of the Communicative Element of Fashion
Your jacket, yours shoes, your dress -- they all TALK. No, this is not me having a schizophrenic episode. This is me introducing the concept of the communicative element of fashion. As a writer, I find I'm good when it comes to dialogue. Not so good when it comes to the descriptive elements. Therefore, that's why I'm so impressed with a book like The Luxe. First, let me review it's weaknesses: yes, it's a Gossip Girl ripoff except set in the late 1800s. Yes, the anachronisms will make perfectionists want to shiv out their retina with a knife. And yes, most of the characters will have normal people wanting to construct a real-life facsimile of their character just so you can strangle them in effigy. But what Anna Godberson does better than any writer I've encountered is use a person's dress to communicate something about their character. In almost every scene in The Luxe, a character is wearing something to express something whether it's dom...