What Artists Wear no-tag Renata Virdaux is a con

Renata Virdaux is a con artist who has come to the sparkling city of Nadezra -- the city of dreams -- with one goal: to trick her way into a noble house and secure her fortune and her sister's future

Perhaps most important

offering the reader an insight into a world at once distant and profoundly close to home

Michael Booth has lived among the Scandinavians

which were originally drawn for different audiences: a paperback version rated Older Teen

What Artists Wear no-tag Renata Virdaux is a con*A Financial Times Book of the Year* 'The first time I opened What Artists Wear, I gasped with pleasure. Imagine it as a kind of punk cousin to John Berger's Ways of Seeing, liberally illustrated with the most astonishing images of artists, decked out in finery or rags It transported me to somewhere glamorous, exciting, even revolutionary' Olivia Laing, Guardian Most of us live our lives in our clothes without realizing their power. But in the hands