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ROBIN GIVHAN is a contributing Opinion writer for The New York Times. Previously, as The Washington Post's senior critic-at-large, she wrote about politics, race, and the arts, covering the fashion industry as a business, as a cultural institution, and as pure pleasure. She is a Pulitzer Prize winner for criticism and author of The Battle of Versailles: The Night American Fashion Stumbled into the Spotlight and Made History. In addition to the Post, where she has also covered Michelle Obama, Givhan has worked at Newsweek, Daily Beast, Vogue, and the Detroit Free Press. ...more

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	The Battle of Versailles: The Night American Fashion Stumbled into the Spotlight and Made History 3.92 avg rating — 814 ratings — published 2015 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lolita in the Afterlife: On Beauty, Risk, and Reckoning with the Most Indelible and Shocking Novel of the Twentieth Century by Jenny Minton Quigley (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Emily Mortimer, Stacy Schiff (Goodreads Author) 3.96 avg rating — 556 ratings — published 2021 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Make It Ours: Crashing the Gates of Culture with Virgil Abloh 4.04 avg rating — 315 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Little Black Dress by André Leon Talley, Maureen Dowd (Contributor), Robin Givhan (Contributor) 3.96 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Obama's Legacy by The Washington Post, David Maraniss (Goodreads Author) (contributor), Karen DeYoung (contributor) 3.62 avg rating — 29 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	La batalla de Versalles: Una noche histórica para la moda by Robin Givhan, Carlos Aguilera (Translator) 3.27 avg rating — 13 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Flatiron Books Winter 2015 Sampler by Gabriel Mac (Goodreads Author), Robin Givhan, Tanya Byron 4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Everyday Beauty (Double Exposure, 6) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Runway Madness by Robin Givhan, Lucian Perkins (Photographer) 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1998 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Michelle: Her First Year as First Lady it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2010 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“He was talking to the teenagers, not the suits. Indeed, he often said he still felt like an adolescent even as he was moving into his forties.”
― Robin Givhan, Make It Ours: Crashing the Gates of Culture with Virgil Abloh

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“Every time the fashion runway makes a place for a plus size woman, an eccentric tomboy, an awkward aristocrat, or four dozen sorority girls, it is a nod to Versailles. That was a moment when the individual trumped the group, when five Americans triumphed not because of the cut of the clothes or any extraordinary embellishments, but because of the spirit in which they were worn. American individualism showed its best face.”
― Robin Givhan, The Battle of Versailles: The Night American Fashion Stumbled into the Spotlight and Made History

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“Being an African in Africa is the equivalent of being a White man in America,” Agyeman explained. “If you keep that attitude, and add to that with hard work, that undergirds your ability to win. [My parents] wouldn’t say, ‘You have to be twice as good to succeed.’ You already know you’re that good.”
― Robin Givhan, Make It Ours: Crashing the Gates of Culture with Virgil Abloh

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