Cintra Wilson, author of Fear and Clothing: Unbuckling American Style, is originally from San Francisco, where she spent several years performing and writing for the stage. These writings begat journalistic writings, which in turn begat books and occasional forays into TV and screenwriting. After a very brief pit-stop in LA, she moved to New York, for obvious reasons.
Cintra Wilson
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From Fifth Avenue to Jamaica Avenue: Jacki Lyden Interviews Cintra Wilson
This is the latest installment of Public Streets, a biweekly urban observations series curated by Ellis Avery. Fashion is a multi-billion dollar global industry: New York Fashion Week alone is a $900 million enterprise, bigger than the US Open, Super Bowl, or NYC Marathon. It’s not surprising, therefore, that most fashion writers toe the line of the […]










