Rewriting the script: ageing as a radical act

What does it mean to grow older in a culture that worships youth and to do so in front of a camera, on a catwalk, or inside an algorithm?

My first book on fashion, published in 2019 by Bloomsbury, focused on Indonesian contemporary fashion. It was part of their Dress and Fashion Research series. I’d written academic work before, but never on fashion. I worked on the book between 2015 and 2018, two years after leaving academia to start a new career as an older model. In the book’s prologu…