What do your clothes say about who you are—and who you want to be?
Clothes Minded: Fashionable Essays About Finding Yourself weaves together fashion, memory, and identity in a collection that is as emotionally resonant as it is sharply observed. These essays explore how clothing is used not just to show up in the world, but to shape, survive, and sometimes escape it.
Inspired by fashion magazines and The Official Preppy Handbook, the collection draws on experiences from the worlds of advertising and high fashion, offering insight into love, loss, marriage, motherhood, and the ongoing process of discovering who lies beneath the clothes. The result is a rare blend of industry knowledge and personal vulnerability, capturing the ways fashion reflects—and shapes—life itself.
The lens also turns outward, sharing candid reflections and style takeaways from some of fashion and beauty’s most respected voices—stylists, designers, founders, and creatives who understand how personal style can shape a life, including Sarah Clary, April Gargiulo, Daryl K, Roz Kaur, Nikki Kule, Joyce Lee, Stacy London, Megan Papay, Meg Strachan, April Uchitel, Tiffany Wendel, and Meg Younger.
