Inventing Style: ... Before fashion caught up.

INVENTING STYLE is a striking visual history of the drag artists who helped shape modern fashion, beauty, and self-expression. Through more than three decades of photography and firsthand storytelling by Jennifer Graylock, the book documents New York’s drag scene beginning in the 1990s and traces the extraordinary influence these artists had on the culture that followed.

Featuring never-before-collected photographs, personal reflections, and interviews with figures including Fern Mallis, Patricia Field, and Amy Fine Collins, Inventing Style celebrates the performers whose creativity moved from the clubs and streets of New York into fashion, beauty, music, and popular culture.

The untold visual history of the artists who transformed modern fashion, beauty, and self-expression before the world knew their names.