Kennedy Fraser

Kennedy Fraser (born 1948) is an American essayist, and fashion writer.

Life

She is a native of England.[1] Her work appeared in Vogue,[2] The New Yorker,[3] where she wrote for William Shawn.[4]

Awards

Works

Books

  • Fashionable Mind: Reflections on Fashion 1970-1981. Knopf. October 12, 1981. ISBN 978-0-394-51775-9.
  • Scenes from the Fashionable World. Knopf. 1987. ISBN 978-0-394-55483-9.
  • Ornament and Silence: Essays on Women's Lives. Knopf. 1996. ISBN 978-0-394-58539-0.
    • Ornament and Silence: Essays on Women's Lives from Edith Wharton to Germaine Greer. Vintage Books. 1998. ISBN 978-0-375-70112-2.

Anthologies

  • Gilbert T. Sewall, ed. (1998). "The Fashionable Mind". The Eighties: a reader. Da Capo Press. ISBN 978-0-7382-0035-4.
  • Virginia Wright Wexman, ed. (1999). "Portrait of a Director". Jane Campion: interviews. University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 978-1-57806-083-2.

Articles

Reviews

Kennedy Fraser's The Fashionable Mind is first of all a charming collection of essays, but within the powder-pink jacket with its stylish gray typeface is a serious and affecting book.[5]

I consider Kennedy Fraser's essay collection The Fashionable Mind and its follow-up, Scenes From the Fashionable World (1987), as really one book--one carefully, coruscatingly detailed panorama of the process of fashion, from thrift-shop chic to haute couture. The vignettes cover the 1970s and '80s, fashion high and low.[6]

References

  1. ↑ "The Kennedy Style", New York Magazine, December 6, 1996, p. 172.
  2. ↑ http://www.vogue.com/search/?cx=010858178366868418930%3Aizwp1-ixezo&q=kennedy+fraser&cof=FORID%3A11&x=0&y=0#356
  3. ↑ http://www.newyorker.com/search/query?query=authorName:%22Kennedy%20Fraser%22
  4. ↑ Sarah Ban Breathnach (2000). Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self. Warner Books. ISBN 978-0-446-67708-0.
  5. ↑ MAUREEN HOWARD (December 27, 1981). "APPAREL AND APPEARANCES". The New York Times.
  6. ↑ WOODY HOCHSWENDER (September 15, 2007). "Take Cover: Accessorize the couture-show season with these books on fashion". The Wall Street Journal.
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