Fugitive Denim

ALRATIBA · ‎07-15-2016

I was debating whether to put this in Fashion or in Book Club, then after thinking about it ... decided that people interested in fabrics / designers / seamstresses, etc .... Fashion would be best.

And ... with NYDJ today ...

Fugitive Denim is the name of a book that I just came across. Author: Rachel Louise Snyder. (Kindle version is only $1.99.)

The blurb from Amazon:

Rachel Louise Snyder reports from the far reaches of the multi-billion-dollar denim industry in search of the people who make your clothes. From a cotton picker in Azerbaijan to a Cambodian seamstress, a denim maker in Italy to a fashion designer in New York, Snyder captures the human, environmental, and political forces at work in a complex and often absurd world. Neither polemic nor prescription, Fugitive Denim captures what it means to work in the twenty-first century.

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ETA to add quote from Publishers Weekly:

You’ll never look at a pair of jeans the same way again after reading this compelling analysis of the denim industry, from corporate politics to cultural history. “Smart and ambitious… An essential read for those curious about fashion or the globe-spanning business that produces their clothes” (Publishers Weekly).