111 Quotes by Rumaan Alam

Fashion has underscored the interchangeability of men for a long time, maybe from the outset.

Because the designers at Baby Gap and Crew Cuts have determined it would be cute if kids dressed like their dads, seemingly every American male between 2 and 52 dresses identically.

Men's fashion's tendency toward uniformity promises little fun, but at least it offers this: If I wear sweatpants and sneakers, I can pass as the American it's safest to be.

Years ago, I worked at a fashion magazine. I was the lowest man on the totem pole, one of the only men on that particular pole: a little brother with a dozen older sisters whose grace and glamour I so admired.

Usually, when you see clothes on a model, by some transitive property, that garment is imbued with her beauty.

Children's picture books are a unique record of social evolution: in gender roles and racial politics, as is much discussed, but also in fashion and interior design.

Children's books deal in idealized worlds, so they're a document of how our notion of ideal worlds has changed over time.

Shot glasses make me think of youth and a mode of drinking and living that was never mine, even when I was the age for it.

Every Christmas, I cook an elaborate Mexican dinner.