Stylist Katie Baron explores fashion's love-in with music

How did a handful of fashion creatives help build today's big music names? Katie Baron's new book looks at the people behind the pop stars

My second book, Fashion & Music: Fashion Creatives Shaping Pop Culture, is built, at its base, on a very personal thread tracing back to my younger, pre-professional self - the curious but uninformed me that wasn't yet aware of (or interested in) the machinations of the fashion industry and its relatively rarefied cast of elite players. Because when fashion first truly had me in its thrall, it wasn't reading a Comme des Garcons review (no offence, Rei, I am most certainly a fan), but when it came hand in glove with music, as populist as you like and all the more thrilling for it. So while the book has an important academic/analytical slant (race, feminism, gender, cultural appropriation, sexual politics and the impact of internet culture constitute some of the biggest themes) and a satisfying raft of juicy behind-the-scenes stories, it's also an ode to the sheer blind magnetism that happens when these two industries collide.

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