Meg Lukens Noonan: "The Coat Route: Craft, Luxury, and Obsession on the Trail of a $50,000 Coat"
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Channel: Portland Art Museum · 2015 · Education
When author and journalist Meg Lukens Noonan learned of an unthinkably expensive overcoat that a fourth-generation tailor had handcrafted for one of his longtime clients, she set off on a round-the-world quest to understand its provenance. Part travelogue, part fashion history and part love song to things of lasting value, Noonan’s The Coat Route was named “Best General Nonfiction Book of 2013” by the American Society of Journalists and Authors. Lecture recorded March 29, 2015, in celebration of "Italian Style: Fashion Since 1945," on view through May 3, 2015, at the Portland Art Museum.
