Fashion Neurosis By Bella Freud

I have always been hyper-aware of the power of being able to transform through clothes and I had a hunch that people were much more interested in them than they realised.

I use clothes as a prism through which to refract questions about how people feel about themselves.

The thing that stands out for me — is their drive; the drive to go beyond the mirror in whatever arena they work in and the pursuit of an idea regardless of whether it will work or not.

We rarely talk about clothes and yet clothes are the most important markers and milestones of our early development.

I started to learn about the value of clothes and why they mattered. How the right outfit can spring you out of self-consciousness and self-loathing.

Clothes help manage extreme shyness by suggesting things that it’s not possible to articulate: they are a parallel language.