The esteemed fashion critic literally wrote the book on American fashion:
How did you get your first book published? Did somebody approach you? How does that process start?
The book is great; it's so interesting to see all of that history packaged together. What were your biggest takeaways in researching and writing it? Even back then, people were complaining about not being able to get from place to place. I think everyone loves to complain, but the industry has a lot to be proud of, which hopefully the book shines a light on. My favorite quote is the last one from
What would you say are the biggest changes you've seen in fashion reporting since you started working in the industry? The magazine closures and things like that have really put everything into disarray. And then certainly, the rise of social media — how that changed the whole idea of this whole top-down theory of fashion where you had the editors-in-chief and the designers deciding everything and trickling that down to everyone else, and now, anyone can be an influencer or a designer or whatever. That's really powerful.