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Zusatztext What Elena Ferrante does for Italy, Yousefzada's The Go-Between does for Immigrant Britain Informationen zum Autor Osman Yousefzada was born in Birmingham to migrant parents who were illiterate both in English and their mother tongue. An artist and writer who studied at SOAS and Central Saint Martins, he has an MPhil from Cambridge University. His visual art practice - of sculpture, moving image and textile installation - has been showcased in international programmes at the Whitechapel Gallery, MCA Sydney, Dhaka Art Summit, Ikon, V&A and more. He has made clothes for Beyoncé, Lady Gaga, Lupita Nyong'o, Gwen Stefani, Emma Watson and many more. His experience within the fashion industry continues to inform the politics of his practice concerned with the rights of the anonymous worker and disposable consumerism. He edits The Collective and has written for Vogue , the Guardian and Observer . Osman is currently a research practitioner at the Royal College of Art and visiting fellow at Jesus College, Cambridge. The Go-Between was longlisted for the Polari First Book Prize in 2022. Klappentext Osman Yousefzada looks back at his time growing up in industrial Birmingham, the son of Afghan parents, learning sewing at his seamstress mother's knee - the immersion in this perceived women's work putting him at odds with the culture he grew up in which deemed it as such. Yousefzada consequently opted to blaze his own trail to fashion fame and acclaim, the story of which is given here. Vorwort An enlightening memoir of living between worlds and learning how to find one's own - from the artist and fashion designer Zusammenfassung An enlightening memoir of living between worlds and learning how to find one's own - from the artist and fashion designer
