Kennedy Fraser

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Name Kennedy Fraser Role Essayist		Education University of Oxford

Books The Fashionable Mind, Scenes from the fashionable world Awards Whiting Awards, Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada

Songs of the Hebrides - Marjory Kennedy Fraser playing Piano - Margaret Kennedy Contralto - 78 rpm

Kennedy Fraser (born 1948) is an American essayist, and fashion writer.

Life

She is a native of England. Her work appeared in Vogue, The New Yorker, where she wrote for William Shawn.

Awards

1994 Whiting Award

Books

Fashionable Mind: Reflections on Fashion 1970-1981. Knopf. October 12, 1981. ISBN 978-0-394-51775-9.

Scenes from the Fashionable World. Knopf. 1987. ISBN 978-0-394-55483-9.

Ornament and Silence: Essays on Women's Lives. Knopf. 1996. ISBN 978-0-394-58539-0.

Ornament and Silence: Essays on Women's Lives from Edith Wharton to Germaine Greer. Vintage Books. 1998. ISBN 978-0-375-70112-2.

Anthologies

Gilbert T. Sewall, ed. (1998). "The Fashionable Mind". The Eighties: a reader. Da Capo Press. ISBN 978-0-7382-0035-4.

Virginia Wright Wexman, ed. (1999). "Portrait of a Director". Jane Campion: interviews. University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 978-1-57806-083-2.

Articles

"The Mighty Penn", Vogue, July 2007.

Reviews

Kennedy Fraser's The Fashionable Mind is first of all a charming collection of essays, but within the powder-pink jacket with its stylish gray typeface is a serious and affecting book.

I consider Kennedy Fraser's essay collection The Fashionable Mind and its follow-up, Scenes From the Fashionable World (1987), as really one book--one carefully, coruscatingly detailed panorama of the process of fashion, from thrift-shop chic to haute couture. The vignettes cover the 1970s and '80s, fashion high and low.

References

Kennedy Fraser Wikipedia

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