A wisp of makeup, a wisp of heel, and a novel in theit bag: for the new wave of international female writers coolness it is a trademark which goes hand in hand with the fine intellect, moving between sharp prose and catwalks, the ink of a copy book and a lamé trench coat draped over the shoulders.
But, after all, it's nothing newas fashion journalist Terry Newman promptly points out in the book Legendary Authors and the Clothes They Wore, defining, for example, the Bloomsbury style Of Virginia Woolf «an eccentric synthesis that preceded Miuccia Prada's chic intellectual style by about seventy years». Up to the American literary myth of Joan Didion in her looks minimal-concept, which in 2015 with a memorable Spring/Summer campaign becomes (also) the “Céline woman” par excellence. Cultured and madly stylish.
So, in a certain sense, a look à la page and the joy of dressing (well) can be one statement of its most varied, even apparently antithetical, nuances. As being very intelligent and very glamorous Together, precisely. Although, alas, according to the (mostly Italian?) stereotype still in force, a certain depth of thought is necessarily allergic to fashionable “frivolities”. And why ever?
In fact some of the best minds of our generation they demonstrate that they know how to dress Prada and beyond, presenting themselves as models of one iconic style, in the use of words as well as in the looks, impossible not to love. Here is our (partial) club glam-literary.
Giada Biaggi
Instagram caption: «Barbie magic of literature». High Priestess of glamour intellectual on Italian soil, writer and stand-up comedian, Giada Biaggi plays with the cliché of the blonde, fashionable and not very intelligent girl, transporting us between her cinematic pages dotted with irony and philosophy, and the front row of a fashion show.
She wears Miu Miu in booktrailer of his first novel Sylvia Plath's bikini and presents his second effort Communism in Times Square showing off, for example, a suit total pink by Vivetta, expertly combined with fishnet stockings and stilettos, while quoting Herbert Marcuse. «I write on the glass table in my mother's living room (it's all so Oedipal, I know…) and I always dress well» she declares about her writing routine to Studio magazine. Very chic in hers mélange Of sexynessTyrolean vests and accessories à la parisenne.
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Coco Mellors
Just his name evokes a certain je ne sais quoi. Fresh from her second opera Blue Sistersthe author of the editorial case Cleopatra and Frankensteina debut novel that has long been at the top of the English charts, as well as a phenomenon on TikTok and a future TV series from Warner Bros, is our Brigitte Bardot of contemporary literature.
Romantic, very sensual and very blonde, in her looks Coco alternates baby pink coats trimmed with fur, 60s mini-dresses and blouses with a coquettegolden ankle boots, sunglasses cat eye and flakes scattered here and there. Possibly by Mara Hoffman, Ulla Johnson and Ganni. The cult accessory in her wardrobe? A bag quilted black Chanel, like tell the The Syndey Morning Herald.
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Ottessa Moshfegh
Now an icon. Revered for her disturbing internet-breaking bestsellers – My year of rest and oblivion it will soon become a film directed by Yorgos Lathimos – Moshfegh translates his attention to fashion in the pungent details that animate his Bukowskian prose as well as in the obsession for vintage garments, rigorously grunge-oriented. Despite her staunch absence from any social network, we remember that during the pandemic we could find her chatting on Depop.
But his liaison with the fashion business it has gone much further with Proenza Schouler: it appears in a 2019 advertising campaign, presents Lapvona in the brand's store in Soho, he writes a short story for the autumn/winter 2022 fashion show and then the monologue, performed by Chloë Sevigny, on the occasion of the autumn/winter 2023 fashion show. While at Maryam Nassir's autumn/winter 2022 fashion show Zadeh actually walks the catwalk.
Allie Rowbottom
«I have bikini photos on my Instagram, but I also have a PhD», cit. Allie Rowbottom. After critical acclaim for his memoir Jell-O Girls: A Family Historyone of the most fashionable on the international scene has bewitched everyone with his provocative debut novel Aesthetics (2022). Not only for the beautiful look at the subtext of contemporary cosmetic surgery, but also for its almost liberating change of look. «For my first book I took a very straight path, I didn't take any risks in my self-presentation. Everything I wore was super buttoned up, super “take me seriously”, and in any case no one took me seriously » he says in a chat with colleague Tea Hacic-Vlahovic on Interview Magazine. Now, the tune has changed: scarlet nails from perfect femme fatalefluorescent lingerie emerging from sexy transparent dresses caressed by her platinum curls, patent knee-high boots and nude-body succinct. Simply uber-glam.
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Dolly Aldetron
A handful of months ago at the launch party of his fourth novel, Do you know love?Dolly Aldetron radiantly shows off a bright red dress by Rosie Assoulin and Jimmy Choo heels. «I like glamorous and feminine silhouettes. If I styled my way, I would look like Geri Halliwell from the Spice Girls in the mid-90s. I like feeling like a sappy showgirl!” declares a Elle UK.
Known for probing with her writing the facets of heartbreak between ghosting, lovebombing and gaslighting, even taking a male point of view, the british agony auntdubbed “the bard of modern love” by Lena Dunham, is a big fan of slim-cut maxi coats, figure-hugging dresses Sex And The Cityfrom the jumpsuit glitter, 90s velvet suits and daring pumps. But more importantly, her shoe collection is as great as her book collection, as, ultimately, “they both bring her joy in different ways.” And how can you blame her.
Source: Vanity Fair
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