"Dressed is irresistible ... I put Dressed down having been dazzled by Bari’s learning and insights ... Bari communicates the joy and powerful sense of interconnected humanity clothes can bring"
"A clever, subtle book… Bari wants us to think not so much about what clothes say as how they make us feel."
"Lively, entertaining and provocative ... Bari tells us throughout Dressed, we should look to give dress the attention it deserves."
"Dressed is a feast of a book, a supreme example of the new kind of essay – exploratory, reflective, full of the personal energy of Bari herself."
"Bari’s investigation into how we construct our selves, individually and collectively, is a sensual and intellectual pleasure from start to finish."
Shahidha Bari is a writer, academic and broadcaster.
She is Professor of Fashion Cultures and Histories at London College of Fashion at the University of the Arts London.
She studied at King's College Cambridge in the UK and Cornell University in the US.
She is a Fellow of the Forum for Philosophy at the London School of Economics.
You can hear her regularly on radio as one of the presenters of BBC Radio 3's Arts and Ideas programme, Free Thinking, and an occasional presenter of BBC Radio 4's Front Row and Saturday Review.
And you'll find her writing in Aeon, The Financial Times, Frieze art magazine, The Guardian, The Observer, The Times Literary Supplement and others.
