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Virginia Postrel is an author, columnist and speaker whose work focuses on the intersection of culture and commerce. Her latest book is The Power of Glamour: Longing and the Art of Visual Persuasion (2013). She lives in Los Angeles.
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Design and fashion
Losing the thread
Older than bronze and as new as nanowires, textiles are technology — and they have remade our world time and again
Virginia Postrel