Kennedy Fraser

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

For the Scottish singer and composer, see Marjory Kennedy-Fraser.

Life

She is a native of England.[1] Her work appeared in Vogue,[2] The New Yorker,[3] where she wrote for William Shawn.[4]

Awards

Works

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.

Anthologies

Articles

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.[5]

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.[6]

References
  1. "The Kennedy Style", New York Magazine, December 6, 1996, p. 172.
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-07-16. Retrieved 2010-01-03.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. https://www.newyorker.com/search/query?query=authorName:%22Kennedy%20Fraser%22
  4. Sarah Ban Breathnach (2000). Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self. Warner Books. ISBN 978-0-446-67708-0.
  5. MAUREEN HOWARD (December 27, 1981). "APPAREL AND APPEARANCES". The New York Times.
  6. WOODY HOCHSWENDER (September 15, 2007). "Take Cover: Accessorize the couture-show season with these books on fashion". The Wall Street Journal.
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