/fa/ - Fashion

>i want to start reading books
>at 22
>>>/lit/

>>13479174
We had a thread like this last week, so I'm copying some of the recommendations from there, OP...

On the how to dress side of things, for classic menswear:
Clothes and The Man by Alan Flusser
Dressing The Man by Alan Flusser
The Gentleman by Bernhard Roetzel

On understanding fashion, clothing and culture:
L'Empire de l'éphémère (I believe it was translated as The Empire of Fashion) by Gilles Lipovetsky
Fashion as Communication by Malcolm Barnard
The Fashion System by Roland Barthes
The Psychology of Clothes by John Carl Flügel
The Hidden Consumer by Christopher Breward (focused on how men hid their interest in fashion from the XIX century on)
The Suit by Christopher Breward
Subculture by Dick Hebdige
The End of Fashion by Teri Agins
The Worldwide History of Dress by Patricia Rieff Anawalt (not about fashion, but clothing itself)

Menswear visual references
100 Years of Menswear by Caly Blackman
I Am Dandy by Nathaniel Adams
We Are Dandy by Nathaniel Adams

>>13479193
>PS no fashion related books please
Fuck me for not paying attention.
Ignore my post above, OP.

>>13479174
Kafka is good, lolita

The Plague, The Stranger - Albert Camus
Anything written by Franz Kafka
The short stories of Eudora Welty
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf - Edwin Albee
Waiting for Godot - Samuel Beckett
Naked Lunch - William S Burroughs
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said - Philip K Dick
The Sound & The Fury - William Faulkner
Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov

>>13479360
good list

>>13479186
this. you're a lost cause, OP.

regardless, here's some random """"effay"""" (imagine reducing artworks to whether they are effay or not, lmao you utter brainlet) recs just looking at my nearest bookshelf:
Death In Venice (Thomas Mann)
Nausea (Jean-Paul Sartre)
The Sheltering Sky (Paul Bowles)
Under the Volcano (Malcolm Lowry)
Mao II (Don DeLillo)
Blow-Up and Other Stories (Julio Cortazar)

good luck if someone wants to start a conversation with you because of a book you are reading (happens relatively frequently on planes; i've been pulled into conversations about You Can't Go Home Again, Don Quixote, and The Broom of the System)

>>13479186
>>13479407
yeah it's late i know but felt like better than being something than nothing desu

>>13479421
How is 22 too late to start reading? You'll at least be alive for another 50 years.

>>13479174
The Sorrows of Young Werther

Do you guys real all these books and novels on your computer/kindle or explicitly buy and read physical books?

>>13479546
i prefer physical copies. i'm sure it's just a personal hang-up, but I feel like I can focus better when it's not on a screen. plus, sometimes the cover art is good, and there are nice intangibles such as the weight of the book and the act of turning pages themselves

>>13479174
the sun also rises by earnest hemingway
tender is the night by f scott fitzgerald

The Picture of Dorian Gray

>>13479174
Forbidden colours

>>13479174
It's not too late at all, desu. Don't listen to what other people are saying. I wouldn't start out with anything too dense, as you might get discouraged. Work up to the more difficult stuff. You might want to start with short stories or relatively easy reads like Vonnegut. I really enjoyed short stories by William Carlos Williams, he's most known for his poetry, but his prose is really nice too, and pretty straightforward to read. There's a collection of them titled "The Farmers' Daughters." And a contemporary writer I like who did some great short stories is Amy Bender, she has a book of short stories called "Willful Creatures" that is pretty good

>>13479572
i second this

>>13479174
>>13479407
can confirm Blow-Up is extremely effay. The film too
>>13479572
>>13479424
>>13479360
Very good
>>13479546
prefer physical copies. less distracting and I can read anywhere. although I guess kindle would also work

None of these are too effay in the particularities of the word, but they certainly evoke a similar kind of essence. My borderline weebcore recommendations:
>Mishima Yukio
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
Confessions of a Mask
>Tanizaki Jun'ichirō
In Praise of Shadows (this one's a treatise on Japanese aesthetics, observations still very much reflected in fashion today, and many other aesthetic realms)
>Murasaki Shikibu
The Tale of Genji (good reading along with In Praise of Shadows. everything, from the Heian court customs to their fashion makes a lot of sense after reading the Tanizaki)
>Terayama Shuji
pretty much anything from him. only some of his poetry has been translated into english, along with a few plays and most of his films, which are seriously effay. pic related is one of his films
>Fyodor Dostoevsky
Notes from Underground
>Comte de Lautréamont
Les Chants de Maldoror (an absolute doozy. author died unknown at 23, work became popular years later and was lauded as one of, if not the first Surrealist pieces)
>Liu Xiaobo
June 4th Elegies (Chinese dissident poetry, very effay)

>>13479638
strong advice

>>13479900
nice list man also pretty good movie too

ITT: people who know little to nothing about one of the GOATs of literature and basically everything my G(abriele) D'Annunzio tried to do, even mogging Mussolini to the point he would let him do whater he wanted -fearing repercussions from the public- like opening the only other political party in italy during Fascism.
Enough history, let's talk about his books that you should read : start with "Il Piacere" (literally every word, every sentence, every comma is put to be pleasing when read in italian) and then move onto his other works, keep in mind that he is a fine man with a fine taste and that you might not appreciate his works at a first read because you aren't familiar with (italian) literature.
I'm shocked in not seeing any of the books written during the Aestheticism period, they were literally meant to be as /fa/ as possible.
>TL;DR: Read "Il piacere" by D'Annunzio after you learn italian

>>13479360
Reading The Plague right now, this version has a pretty cool cover

>>13480152
D'Annunzio was a piece of shit to the nth degree, you idgit. Pull your head outta your ass

>>13480614
He was the writer that inspired the 20th century literature in italy that either copied him or had to "go through D'Annunzio" as Montale said referring to a process of analyzing and development of his literature.
He excelled in every type of literature he put his eyes on and when he was blind he wrote a book, "Notturno", that is a masterpiece yet to be rivaled in his meditative aura because you know, he said that war was fun and then proceed to take part on a world conflict and then came back full of incentives to write.
He may have been an utter piece of shit to some women, someone who doesn't know when to stop but he was definitely a /fa/ author and a Chad in every way possible.
I suggest everyone to have a look at his works, and this comes from someone who hates this type of writing.

Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger. v effay

>>13479421
>>13479422
this
but don't ask fa for book recs lol

Burning Chrome
Neuromancer
Count Zero
Mona Lisa Overdrive

You NEED to read these books. They invented cyberspace.

>>13479193
not OP but thanks for the recs :)

>>13479174
>effay books
anime seems more your speed

All meme bullshit aside, it's actually a very good book.

>>13480620
this

Anyone got a download like for Luca Turin's new book?

>>13479360
>tryhard, the list.

There's another board for this

>>13485505
You lack culture you swine

>>13485630
Nothing cultured about feigning culture.

>>13486359
Why do you assume it's feigned?

>>13479174
what is an ideal reading set up? I have a lot of books I want to read, and enjoy reading, but i can never get comfortable

neuromancer hardcover is essential dwc

>>13486465
to add: read this while listening to Age Of by Oneohtrix Point Never in a futuretech leather reading room or an abandoned warehouse for maximum dwc

>>13486424
in public at an outdoor cafe during nice weather, an indoor cafe with warm comfy lighting and light chatter, an unusual place like under the arches of a nice building with pillars, or in your room while smoking tobacco

>>13479174

>>13486471
hmmm

>>13479174
The Nag Hammadi texts
The Zhuangzi text
"Sermons and Treatises" - Meister Eckhart

"Theozoology" - Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels
"Recovering the Lost World" - Jno Cook
"History: Fiction or Science?" - Anatoly Fomenko

"The Gift" - Vladimir Nabokov
"Tender is the Night" - Francis Scott Fitzgerald
"Lost Illusions", "A Harlot High and Low" - Honoré de Balzac

have fun

>>13480663
The night D'Annunzio took Fiume, until the wee hours of the morning could be heard moans of ecstasy from every window in town.

Granted I haven't read much into his works, but from what I did study, I found this particularly striking.