Virginia Postrel is a highly accomplished writer, speaker, editor, and idea curator. She has a strong interest in the intersection of culture, commerce, and technology, with a particular focus on textiles, visual persuasion, and style. Virginia studied English literature with a heavy economics coursework at Princeton University. She has worked as an Independent columnist, author, and speaker at Intellectual Arbitrage LLC, and has contributed to various publications, including Bloomberg Opinion, The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times, Forbes, and Reason Magazine. Virginia has also taught branding MPS courses at the School of Visual Arts. Her most recent book, The Power of Glamour: Longing and the Art of Visual Persuasion, published by Simon & Schuster, has received critical acclaim. Her next book, The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World, to be published in November 2020, promises to be equally insightful.