Prose
In 1997 choreographer Merce Cunningham invited fashion designer Rei Kawakubo to work with him on a dance piece, the result...
Fashion Documents
Since 1967, filmmaker Frederick Wiseman has produced an enormously influential and insightful series of documentaries. Over the course of some...
Dressing for Success
The Business Suit and Corporate Culture: Ron Jude’s Executive Model
Few fashion archetypes measure up as having the symbolic power that the ‘business suit’ has. The suit is both a...
Repeated Gestures
The street photographer, as opposed to a studio image-maker, engages with a working process that observes and captures events and...
Keywords on Dress: Glamour
The word 'glamour' at its origins, is derived from the English word 'grammar'. The Scottish adapted the term to 'gram(m)arye'...
Loose Fit
Founded in 1929 by radiologist Alfred Jordan, along with a collection of eugenicists, the Men's Dress Reform Group was formed...
Wilde’s White Shirt
Oscar Wilde's influence in both his prose and personal style has reached a mythical and iconic status, yet of the...
Gele & Suku
Discussion of the fashioned body so often focuses on clothing; but, no less a realm for the symbolic power of...
Paris is Burning
Revisiting the Seminal Film by Jennie Livingston
Desire. Intention. Ambition. If fashion has long been the crowning companion of the wealthy, it can also be a powerful...
The Only Way is Up!
Fashion and architecture are both telling symbols of the personal, social and cultural identity of an age, reflecting as they...
A Letter to a Girl on the Future of Clothes
One of the first costume scholars, and a long-time conservator at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, James Laver...
Real Fakes
Fashion wares for sale in a street market are widely considered to be the final stage in a product-cycle bracket....