The Coat Route: Craft, Luxury & Obsession on the Trail of a $50,000 Coat

The journalist co-author of Albatross recounts her international travels to sites where the rare materials for a luxury hand-crafted coat are gathered and created, from a vicuna shearing festival in the Peruvian Andes to the elite silk boutiques of Florence, where she witnessed the struggles of elite artisans against the forces of globalization and mass production.