Kassia St Clair
Cultural historian and writer
Kassia St Clair is a British cultural historian and writer. She is the author of The Golden Thread and The Secret Lives of Colour.
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British Born 1985 in London Borough of Merton, United Kingdom
About Kassia St Clair
Kassia St Clair studied history at Bristol University, graduating with a first, and then went to Oxford to study English women's dress and the eighteenth-century masquerade. She is a journalist whose work on design and culture has appeared in The Economist, Elle and the Times Literary Supplement. She has written a column on color for Elle since 2013. Her debut book, The Secret Lives of Colour, reached the top ten of the Sunday Times bestseller list. The Golden Thread was one of the Sunday Times books of the year, and it also made the shortlist for the Somerset Maugham Award. She lives in London.