The Web Team’s Favorite Fall Reads
As the New Orleans weather reaches the low fifties, the best way to take a study break is to curl up with a good book. On November 9th, the TU Fashion executive team hosted a photoshoot at Trumpet and Drum with members from CORE (Tulane’s print fashion magazine) and Crescent (Tulane’s online lifestyle magazine).
Fashion thrives on observation. Observation of people, of history, of ourselves, of our preferences. While observation of others is not necessary for one's self-expression, trends are derived from years of creative directors' designs trickling down into fast-fashion until eventually, if popular enough, they are what most would say are “overdone” or “ripped off”. A great way to observe, not by observing these trends, and to prevent yourself from looking “overdone”, is to READ!
Reading, not just about fashion, but reading in general, gives us perspective on trends that exist in other aspects of our lives that are not our closets. They give us a perspective on aspects of our emotions that are not often conveyed to us on our feeds.
This fall, we introduce you to TUFashion’s first official recommended reading list.
The Web Team’s favorite fall reads are about seeing the world differently, and maybe dressing a little differently because of it. So find your quiet corner, choose a book from our list, light a candle, let this fall be your season of thought… and let those thoughts influence your style.
Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Just Kids by Patti Smith
Dracula by Bram Stoker
The Woman in The Window by AJ Finn
If You're A Girl by Ann Rower
Alternative Femininities by Samantha Holland
Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte
The Woman in Me by Britney Spears
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
Bunny by Mona Awad
Slow Days, Fast Company by Eve Babitz
If It Makes You Happy by Julie Olivia
The Uncool by Cameron Crowe
Milk Fed by Melissa Broder
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Girls by Emma Cline
The White Album by Joan Didion
Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion
Bluets by Maggie Nelson
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
Happiness and Love by Zoe Dubno
Fashion:
The Asylum by Simon Doonan
Fashioning Identity by MariaValentin
Worn Out by Alyssa Hardy
Fashion, Desire and Anxiety by Rebecca Arnold
Alexander McQueen: Blood Beneath The Skin by Andrew Wilson
The Politics of Aesthetics by Jacques Ranciere
Fashion is Spinach by Elizabeth Hawes
Gods and Kings: The Rise and Fall of Alexander McQueen and John Galliano by Dana Thomas
Fashionopolis by Dana Thomas
The Vogue Factor by Kirstie Clements
The Beautiful Fall by Alicia Drake
Fashion Theory by Malcolm Barnard
xoxo,
The TU Fashion Web Team <3
