{"product_id":"judy-blames-obituary","title":"Judy Blame’s Obituary","description":"\u003cp\u003eDerek McCormack is the author of fashion-inflected novels that cast luminaries such as Elsa Schiaparelli and Balenciaga as characters: this collection brings together for the first time his fashion journalism. He writes about and interviews fashion figures that fascinate him, tracing the ways they inspire and inhabit his novels. The result is a sort of memoir in essays: as he writes, “My tribute to [Judy] Blame is about him and about me—there are lots of my own tales woven in with the topics I touch on. The writing here is a sort of autobiography, a life seen through a scrim, or a life as a scrim—my moire mémoire.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eJudy Blame’s Obituary\u003c\/em\u003e contains twenty years’ worth of reminiscences, reviews of fashion shows and books, interviews with writers about fashion, and interviews with fashion designers about writing. He talks to Nicolas Ghesquière about perfume, and to Edmund White about which perfume he wore as a young fag in New York City. He inspects the clothes that Kathy Acker left behind when she died, and he summons the spirit of Margiela in a literary seance. He traces the history of sequins, then recounts the cursed story of Vera West, the costume designer who dressed the Bride of Frankenstein. These pieces were all previously published, some in \u003cem\u003eArtforum\u003c\/em\u003e, some in \u003cem\u003eThe\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eBeliever\u003c\/em\u003e, and some in underground publications like \u003cem\u003eWerewolf Express\u003c\/em\u003e—what binds them together is a sense that though fashion victimizes us, this victimization is sometimes a sort of salvation. [publisher’s note]\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pilot Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57357744308564,"sku":"A8B-30191","price":18.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1072\/9609\/6596\/files\/Scan_20220201_145650.jpg?v=1790812841","url":"https:\/\/after8books.com\/products\/judy-blames-obituary","provider":"After 8 Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}