How often do we pause to think about the place of clothes in our lives?
We all get dressed. But how often do we pause to think about the place of clothes in our lives? Philosopher, broadcaster and author of Dressed: The Secret Life of Clothes, Shahidha Bari, unveils the hidden power of what we wear.
Shahidha Bari is Senior Lecturer in Romanticism at Queen Mary University of London and Fellow of the Forum for European Philosophy at the LSE. She was one of the first ever BBC Radio 3 New Generation Thinkers in 2011. She writes for the TLS, Times Higher, Guardian and Financial Times. She features regularly on BBC Radio 4's Saturday Review, Front Row & Woman's Hour, and she is an occasional presenter of BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking.
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