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Friday , June 23, 2006
Francesca Lia Block's Fashion Quest
Last night I went to a reading at Skylight Books, the launch of the fifth edition of Black Clock. This issue’s all Los Angeles fiction, and there’s a story by Francesca Lia Block (who we have loved a long time, and will probably love forever). I stupidly got there late and missed her portion of the reading, but once I snaked my way into the crowded little reading space I spotted her right away: In a throng of black-clad bodies, she was all bright and shiny with her gauzy, peach, silver-sequin-adorned, near-sleeveless blouse and a gold skirt made of some luminous and crinkly fabric. Around her right wrist was a very long strand of pearls that haphazardly wound itself halfway up her forearm. I didn’t get a good look at her shoes but they seemed cream-colored and high-heeled.
So now I’ve just reread her years-old Fresh Yarn essay “Fashion Quest”, a personal history of style as told through her lifelong obsessions with fashion magazines, punk rock, and names like Pucci and Chanel and Dior. It’s my favorite kind of fashion writing, love-filled words that make you want to open your eyes a little wider to what’s beautiful and possible in your world.
Her piece in the new Black Clock is stunning too, by the way. Pick up the issue and you’ll also get stories by: Jonathan Lethem, Susan Straight, J. Albany, Rachel Resnick, and a slew of other Angelenos.
Posted by Liz
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