Suffering in Style: A discussion about fashion, addiction, and endless aesthetic cravings

Fashion is a form of allure, a seductive sexual rush that also ensnares. Fashion demands craving. We all feel the social pressure on our appearance. We feed our aesthetic greed with endless amounts of cheap clothes, drawn into destructive cycles of obsessive affirmation and compulsive shopping. Can we recover from our aesthetic addiction? This book records a discussion on the subject of fashion and addicition, and a Buddhist approach to recovery. The discussants are Otto von Busch, fashion scholar at Parsons School for Design in New York, and Josh Korda, a Buddhist teacher at New York Dharma Punx. The illustrations are by artist Jesse Bercowetz.