At the Altar of Comme des Garçons With David Sedaris

Sedaris has always treated fashion as part of the performance, even if he’d resist the word. Most of the year, he is on the road, reading and refining essays in theaters and lecture halls. He has said his audience is his first editor. He trusts them to know when something is funny, less so when it comes to matters of style. “My audience knows a lot about a lot of things, but they don’t know anything about clothes,” he said. “They’re like, ‘Oh, did you make it…