Fashion: A Manifesto, Anouchka Grose

Fashion: A Manifesto is a spirited, psychoanalytical journey through the joys and contradictions of fashion. From the opulent courts of Louis XIV to TikTok's viral wardrobe upheavals, psychoanalyst Anouchka Grose unpicks how clothing shapes desire, identity and global culture. With wry humour and probing insight, she reveals fashion to be a system that simultaneously elevates and entraps—yet also one capable of radical possibility. Offering a post‑fashion logic, Grose charts a future where clothes care for us—and the planet—as much as they delight us. 

Concise yet richly textured, this 176‑page manifesto avoids moralising. Instead, it reframes sartorial rituals—consumption, trend-chasing, self-curation—as cultural phenomena worthy of thoughtful critique and creative reimagining. Fashion’s edge remains its capacity to surprise, console, connect… and indeed unsettle. Grose’s small, pink‑cloth book is as puckish as it is profound—a call to wear better, not less.

About the Author
Anouchka Grose is a London‑based psychoanalyst, writer, and member of the Centre for Freudian Research. She has penned cultural explorations such as No More Silly Love Songs and A Guide to Eco‑Anxiety, and her essays appear in The Guardian, Granta and The Independent. Grose blends clinical insight with cultural commentary—always with wit, compassion, and a stylish turn of phrase.

Publication date: 2023
Publisher: Notting Hill Editions
Pages: 176
ISBN: 978-1912559497