This book explores interconnections between high literary modernism and the revolution in dress design of the early twentieth century. During this time, new and "liberated" lifestyles created a bond among figures as diverse as writers and fashion editors, painters and art critics, photographers and models, dancers and economists - all of whom were in different ways looking at new "inventive clothes" (Vreeland) as life experiences. Starting points of the research are Pirandello's One, no one, and one hundred thousand, where the protagonist's disowning of his own image in the mirror...