The Sartorial Splendors of “Legendary Authors and the Clothes They Wore”

Photo: Jacqueline Susann in Central Park. © ZUMA Press, Inc. / Alamy.

“Where would fashion be without literature?” Diana Vreeland asked in D.V., her legendary memoir published in 1984. One to pay homage where it is due, Vreeland understood this it is not just the sartorial splendors of the characters that writers…