Anyone with teenage or young adults in their lives will know that the trend for searching out vintage fashion has become ever more popular in recent years.
In the US, Jenny Walton has risen to the forefront of that trend, inviting readers of her monthly column in Vogue and her Substack newsletter, Jenny Sais Quoi, to pursue their personal style through the unique and creative clothing of eras past.
Our new book, Jenny Sais Quoi: Adventures in Vintage & Personal Style is a collection of her charming, thoughtful, and humorous essays and stories on fashion and self-expression, interwoven with over 200 original illustrations, paintings, and photographs by the artist-author.
In this, her first book, Walton shares her journey of developing and curating her individual style through five main chapters entitled: Wear It All Began, Know Thyself, Clothes as Canvas, The Value of Vintage, and A Wardrobe That Works.
In addition to a captivating and clever trompe l’oeil dustcover jacket and a vintage floral-patterned hardcover case, the book itself is a colorful, multi-dimensional visual diary, with all of the imagery within—whether fashion illustrations, drawings, photography, paintings, collages, and candid snapshots—created or styled by Walton.
Special features include an artist palette-shaped paper die-cut, a mini-journal insert of artist ruminations and sketches, and a split-page to mix and match illustrated tops and bottoms.
The 30 varying texts are a collection of personal and humorous stories, essays, and poetic prose on her experiences, advice, and life lessons in the world of fashion and style, alternating with strategies on how to cultivate your true style.
Topics include: finding flow and emotion in curating your wardrobe, finding the joy in rebuffing perfection and, of course, how and why to shop vintage.
From her beginnings as a fashion student, to street style blogger, to fashion influencer, Jenny Walton’s name has become synonymous with self-expression. In the book she seeks to impart on readers the most valuable lesson she’s learned along the way: that the path to authentic personal style is paved not with wealth, trends, and fads, but with trust in your instincts, your taste, and yourself. Take a closer look at Jenny Sais Quoi: Adventures in Vintage & Personal Style.
