What Artists Wear

*A Financial Times Book of the Year*

''The first time I opened What Artists Wear, I gasped with pleasure. Imagine it as a kind of punk cousin to John Berger''s Ways of Seeing, liberally illustrated with the most astonishing images of artists, decked out in finery or rags ... It transported me to somewhere glamorous, exciting, even revolutionary'' Olivia Laing, Guardian


Most of us live our lives in our clothes without realizing their power. But in the hands of artists, garments reveal themselves. They are pure tools of expression, storytelling, resistance and creativity: canvases on which to show who we really are.

In What Artists Wear, style luminary Charlie Porter takes us on an invigorating, eye-opening journey through the iconic outfits worn by artists, in the studio, on stage, at work, at home and at play. From Yves Klein''s spotless tailoring to the kaleidoscopic costumes of Yayoi Kusama and Cindy Sherman; from