Is There Really No Smart Writing on Women’s Fashion?

Reading Women in Clothes, the sprawling collection edited by Heidi Julavits, Sheila Heti, and Leanne Shapton, is like spending Saturday afternoon at Nordstrom Rack. Massive, chaotic, and noisy, both are messy in a way that could be inadvertent but could be purposeful: is this disarray a sign of how much they have to offer, or a commercial tactic to make their goods seem limitless?

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