Fictional Fashion

Every so often I visualise a piece of clothing that I would love to own. These pieces will sometimes be a concept picked from a dark recess at the back of my mind and in many cases my imagination is unmatched by what retailers have actually deigned to make available for me to purchase.

Sometimes, these covertous impulses are fired by descriptions from works of literature such as Donna Tartt's 'The Secret History'. Early in the novel the protagonist Richard Papen, realising in a panic that the weather is too warm to wear his best jacket to lunch with a new friend, Bunny, who he is keen to impress borrows a replacement from his disliked dorm neighbour Judy Poovey.

Extract from 'The Secret History' by Donna Tartt