Virginia Postrel

Freelance

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.

Written by Virginia Postrel

A woman shown from the back wearing a dark, sculptural garment with layered, wavy textures in blue and green hues.

essayDesign 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