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“At any rate, I think my love of clothes has at least partly to do with my love of detail. Lots of writers have been clothes horses and dandies - Proust, Oscar Wilde, Baudelaire, Colette all come to mind…even Emily Dickinson in her white muslin dresses or Ivy Compton-Burnett with her diamond brooches and severe Victorian black. Poring through racks of vintage clothes or obsessing over just the right shade of sky-blue or violet satin for the lining of a black jacket stems from exactly the same impulse that makes me tinker happily with a sentence all afternoon, changing adjectives and moving clauses around until it’s just right. Then, too: I so enjoy looking at other people’s clothes that it seems only proper to take a little care with my own. As Isabella Blow so famously said: “My style icon is anyone who makes a bloody effort.””

— Sensitive and Powerful: An Interview with Donna Tartt by Florence Welch featured in Rookie Yearbook Four edited by Tavi Gevinson, 2015