Nothing Is Lost: Selected Essays [Hardcover]

From the late editor, writer, and critic, one of the great chroniclers of the art, fashion, and celebrity scenes: an expansive collection of thirty-five essays that offer an intimate look into the worlds of some of the most important and well-known artists, designers, and actors of our time.

For more than three decades, Ingrid Sischy's profiles and critical essays have been admired for their keen observation and playful style. Many of the pieces that appeared inThe New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker,andVanity Fairfrom the 1980s to 2015 are gathered here for the first time, including her masterful profiles of Nicole Kidman, Kristen Stewart, Miuccia Prada, Calvin Klein, Jeff Koons, Jean Pigozzi, Alice Neel, and Francesco Clemente, among others, as well as her exclusive interview with John Galliano after his career nose-dived in 2011. Whether writing about a young Alexander McQueen, the photography of Robert Mapplethorpe, Sebastião Salgado, Cindy Sherman, or Bob Richardson, or the Japanese musical theater group Takarazuka Revue, Sischy's close attention to the unexpectedly telling detail results in vividly crafted, incisive portraits of individuals and their works.

Here is a unique collection that gives readers unprecedented access to a dazzling range of artists from one of the greatest cultural critics of a generation.Foreword, by Laurie Anderson

Let’s Pretend
The Hands of Time
White and Black
Sam Wagstaff’s Silver
Belief
Selling Dreams
Lee Friedlander: Nudes
Some Clothes of One’s Own
Good Intentions
Exposure
A Picture of One’s Own
Kid Haring
That Feeling in the Stomach
Artist, Interrupted
Outskirts
The Whole Clemente
Triumph of the Still
Koons, High and Low
The Smithsonian’s Big Chill
The Rebel in Prada
Nicole’s New Light
How Fashion Left Me Speechless
Rosenquist’s Big Picture
Image Maker
Artist in RelC