num_pages: 200
description: New York Times Bestseller!Now a NETFLIX original seriesEveryone 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 from cultural figures and talented storytellers. 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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title: Worn Stories
publisher: Princeton Architectural Press