Marco Stark Audiobooks

Reinventing Fashion: a brisk look at style as an industry as much as an art

1 audiobook reviewed

Who is Marco Stark?

Fashion is filed twice in our catalogue for a reason, and Reinventing Fashion sits on both shelves at once: arts and entertainment on one side, business and careers on the other. Clothes are a creative discipline and a supply chain, and any serious treatment has to hold the two together.

Marco Stark works at a length that signals intent. Under an hour and a half is a briefing rather than a survey, the format chosen by a writer with a thesis who would rather state it cleanly than pad it out to conventional book length.

What lies behind the name is not something our records establish, so we leave it there.

Marco Stark in audiobooks

Gordon Webster narrates, and short-form non-fiction lives or dies on that choice, since an hour and twenty minutes leaves no room for a reading that drags. No listener verdicts have landed yet, this being a recent addition, so there is no score to lean on either way.

The practical case for it is the running time. It fits a commute, a long walk or an afternoon of ironing, which makes it a low-risk way to test whether the argument lands with you before anything longer is worth your while.

Have a look below and judge for yourself.