An Interview with Joan Juliet Buck
An interview with Joan Juliet Buck by Alison Gary for Wardrobe Oxygen.
Style is what brought a lot of us here. Life is what keeps us coming back.
Wardrobe Oxygen has always been about more than clothes. Since 2005, this space has been where I share what’s on my mind: the things I’m reading, thinking about, and navigating as a woman in midlife. That means perimenopause, aging parents, kids becoming adults, civic life, cultural moments worth paying attention to, and the occasional strong opinion about something that has nothing to do with fashion (though really, fashion is political…).
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An interview with Joan Juliet Buck by Alison Gary for Wardrobe Oxygen.
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