Prose
Despite the state rhetoric of ‘locking down’ our physical movements haven’t been suspended, they have adapted: adapted to demonstrate our...
THE TYGER IN THE CHANGING ROOM
‘THE ACCURSED SHARE’ REVISITED IN TIMES OF THE DIRECT–TO–CONSUMER FASHION ECONOMY
The surplus of time and money of the Upper East Side clientele is mirrored in the quiet and calm behaviour...
Fashion and the Fleshy Body
Individuals feel a social and moral imperative to perform their identity in particular ways, and this includes learning appropriate ways...
The Instagrammable Shopping Centre
As the service industry has taken over goods, the parameters of conspicuous consumption have also shifted. The ‘lifestyle experience’ is...
Neutrals and Neons
My mother has not held a job in nearly fifty years. This is not because she chose to be a...
Slow Time Is God’s Time
An Amish catechism manual devotes nine pages and forty-three questions and answers to dress – second only to the topic...
Motherhood and Money
To be pregnant, and then to be a mother, is to be reliant on others – to greater and lesser...
Mythical Beasts
Global Lessons from the Mongol Past
The Chinese dragon is Chinese, but how did it become so? And what does 'Chinese' even mean in the context...
The Clothes They Were Buried In
Having your ashes placed in a handbag by Louis Vuitton is another way of writing a love-letter, not to a...
Docile Bodies
Prison Uniforms and the Dress of Subservience
Prison literature and theory often focuses on the oppressiveness of the system, the callous discipline enforced on the prisoner, the...
The side hustle in your closet
As our real-life identities become blurred with those of our online avatars, so do our notions of work and play,...
Xanadu, drained
When lockdown was announced, the luxury stores seized their shoes, bags and belts. The high street left theirs in full...