Frances Wilson
She Wore It Best
Clothes… and Other Things That Matter
By Alexandra Shulman
Cassell 352pp £16.99 order from our bookshop
How’s that for timing? Just when we’re trapped in the house with nothing to do except count the items in our wardrobes, Alexandra Shulman produces a book that is the best possible escape from dark times. It even begins with her counting the items in her wardrobe: the number is 556, which includes thirty-seven handbags, thirty-five bras and twenty-two coats – which isn’t that much if you think about it. Had I been editor of Vogue for twenty-five years, I would have snapped up way more handbags. Her current bag, the one she is using at the time of writing the chapter on handbags, is a twenty-year-old brown leather tote made by Prada containing, among other things, one left-eye contact lens, an Oyster card and a paperback copy of Svetlana Alexievich’s Chernobyl Prayer.
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