If you like literature and coffee table books, you might enjoy Legendary Authors and the Clothes They Wore, by Terry Newman.

“Out of the 50 writers included in the book—from T.S. Eliot and George Sand to Malcolm Gladwell and Joyce Carol Oates—there wasn’t one, Ms. Newman said, who didn’t prove a rich subject as she combed through their writing and interviews. Though they often overtly rejected the diktats of the runway, in doing so they drafted diktats of their own.”

“In the same way that pet owners sometimes come to resemble their animals, writers often come to resemble their discourse (or, in the case of John Updike, their main character — which is to say, suburbia). Ms. Stern refers to it as a ‘stylistic earmark.’ And she is not referring to just those authors who are part of the ‘write what you know’ contingent, or those who use their own life as fodder for their imagination.”

from “Your Literary Idols and Their Wardrobes,” by Vanessa Friedman (NY Times 29 June 2017)