Join us at the nest for a book talk with Jenny Walton, celebrating Jenny Sais Quoi: Adventures in Vintage & Personal Style. Jenny will talk all things vintage, from finding great pieces to collecting, styling, and building a wardrobe that feels like your own. An artist, designer, writer, and Vogue vintage shopping columnist, Jenny brings a thoughtful and personal perspective to fashion and getting dressed.
The conversation will be moderated by Kendel R. Bolton, founder and executive director of The Bolton Arts Foundation, an organization dedicated to celebrating and preserving fashion history through educational initiatives and documentary film screenings. We’ll talk fashion, creativity, and the stories behind what we wear, followed by a signing of Jenny Sais Quoi.
Tickets
Book Talk + Signed Copy: $55 (ticket includes a copy of the book)
Signing Line RSVP: Free
About the Book
A vibrant, charming celebration of personal style from one of the fashion world’s brightest stars
‘Part scrapbook, part sketchbook, part sartorial manifesto…A fashion book that feels, refreshingly, like something made by hand.’ – Vogue
Jenny Sais Quoi: Adventures in Vintage & Personal Style is a peek inside the mind and imagination of a modern-day style icon. Jenny Walton - artist, designer, writer, and Vogue vintage shopping columnist - weaves together illustrations, paintings, candid snapshots, collages, and essays to reveal her journey from fashion student to street style darling to global tastemaker.
Known for her impeccable styling of vintage fashion, Jenny approaches personal style with both grace and delight. Here, she shares how embracing her interest in clothing from eras past led to confidence, joy, and self-expression. Readers will discover inspiring stories from Jenny’s life in fashion, along with insightful advice on cultivating one’s own sense of style, shopping vintage, color paletting, curating a wardrobe, and more. Jenny’s distinctive voice shines throughout, offering encouragement, expertise, and a welcome touch of levity.
Reflecting Jenny’s boundless creativity, Jenny Sais Quoi takes the form of a multi-dimensional visual diary, with a gorgeous trompe-l'œil cover design, a ‘mini journal’ insert, and a cleverly-designed split page that allows you to mix and match illustrated tops and bottoms to create outfits.
About Jenny Walton
In addition to being an illustrator, designer, and writer, Jenny Walton is known the world over for her always unique and urbane joie de vivre and elegant, playful, and aspirational sense of style. She first made a splash as a street style star and is now highly regarded within the global fashion industry for her expressive individuality and her passion for wearing and collecting vintage. Jenny writes the Vintage Shopping column at Vogue Magazine (entitled “From the Archives with Jenny Walton”) and her eponymous substack newsletter, Jenny Sais Quoi (for which the book is named).
A graduate of Parsons with a BFA in Fashion Design, Jenny worked in knitwear and as a jewelry designer, while also honing her skills as an illustrator, working for such brands as Prada, Miu Miu, Bottega Veneta, and Gucci. Jenny recently relocated to Milan, Italy, which, for her, has been a life-changing visual, cultural, and emotional renaissance. As her audience only continues to grow, she delights, amuses, and inspires her many thousands of followers on Instagram, where she regularly posts her clever, and often humorous fashion and style musings and showcases her glorious authentic style.
About Kendel Bolton
Kendel is an Assistant Professor of Fashion Management in the graduate program at Parsons School of Fashion and the founder of The Bolton Arts Foundation. The mission of The Bolton Arts Foundation is to empower students, artists, arts organizations, and academic institutions through vital funding and resources.
