Novelist Fatima Farheen Mirza on the unexpected relationship between fashion and fiction
"You don’t always know where something will lead, but it all feeds the writing.”
- Words By Akanksha Kamath •
- Photography by Ali-Moosa Mirza
5 min read
The novelist Fatima Farheen Mirza is no stranger to the layered textures of storytelling. Her debut, A Place for Us, was a New York Times bestseller. Now working on her second novel, Mirza has been exploring a slower rhythm of writing through her Substack, where book-club and artist exchanges unfold with diaristic honesty. Recent collaborations with brands reveal how the intimacy of language can hold memory and identity in subtle, wearable forms, and how storytelling attempts to shape how we move through the world.
