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Jan 18, 2021redtayres rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
Before this book went slightly off the rails near its end (into boring territory), I very much enjoyed it. I was busily logging names dropped for later look-up, so I could see what these folks looked like and what they wore. This is, after all, a book by the noted Andre Leon Talley, and so what is worn is paramount. But he also drops in a lot of stories and many about friendships that suddenly ceased. The excruciating pain of a severed friendship is felt acutely here as is the author's sad relationship with excess consumption. In all, despite his success I felt a sadness in the author and also a bitterness about the limitations in his many achievements, which he now attributes to race. Not a bad read if the fashion is your passion though it lags a bit in the final 50 pages.