Nothing Is Lost

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 in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, and Vanity Fair from 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 Residence Calvin to the Core Kith, Kin & Khaya Living Large Is the Best Revenge A Man of Darkness and Dreams Hollywood’s Rebel Belle Hats Off to Karl Rene Ricard Galliano in the Wilderness Jeff Koons Is Back! Her Place in the Sun Acknowledgments Index