Prose
The digital screen and fashion form the cornerstones of modern day consumer culture. Now the two are increasingly fused, but...
The Bryanboy Gesture
The much-appropriated Bryanboy gesture – one hand at waist, hip cocked with the other hand is held high, proudly clutching...
The Birkin
In 2011, a ‘Birkin’ bag, the iconic Hermès made-to-measure travelgood, sold for a record price of $US203,000 at Heritage, an...
Mainbocher & the Decline of the Socialite
A quick Google search on ‘socialite’ will inevitably come up with any number of recognisable faces from twenty-first century celebrity...
Style in Space
NASA sought public engagement by inviting audiences to vote on the design of their new generation of spacesuit, and as...
The New Leisure Class
Thorstein Veblen’s Theory and Tweed in the Twenty-first Century
The American economist and sociologist Thorstein Veblen’s The Theory of the Leisure Class remains an influential work in sartorial studies,...
Myth-Making in the Fashion Magazine
Released in 1874, the same year of its demise, Mallarmé’s La Dernière Mode, is a magazine/art project/journal on fashion that...
Expanding Fashion: The Prada Transformer
Fashion’s love affair with architecture is, at least at face value, an aspirational one, the academic tendencies of architectural discourse...
Material Memories
For most of us, our closets are home to sentimental garments with a story to tell alongside clothes we tend...
Street Wearing
The concrete stage of a street-scape is where fashion becomes visible, meaningful, and most importantly, embodied. From the mundane surrounds...
Text Appeal
In October 2012, Prada announced the winners of its Prada Journal contest, an initiative, in partnership with Italian publishers Giangiacomo...
Expanding Fashion
The creative marriage between James Dyson and Issey Miyake Design Studio has given birth to a series of projects between...