Prose Loving, Sharing, Giving A New Theory for the Fashion System February 25, 2020 By Aurelie Van de Peer Peter Marlow, The First Day of the Harrods Sale, 1978. Concepts like competitiveness, egotism, status and obedience to authority lie at the heart of the current organisation of the fashion... [READ MORE]
Prose The Death of the Lanyard February 18, 2020 By Jordan MacInnis In 2014, a woman posed a question to the 1.1 million members of a Reddit thread called Female Fashion Advice.... [READ MORE]
Prose A Fucking Raw Deal Designing Motherhood the All American Way January 30, 2020 By Michelle Millar Fisher and Amber Winick Photograph Carmen Winants, My Birth, 2018. Courtesy the artist. Maternity and fashion have long been uneasy bedfellows. It wasn’t until the early twentieth century that maternity clothing was even... [READ MORE]
Prose Tamás Király: Hungary’s King of Fashion January 7, 2020 By Doris Domoszlai-Lantner and Petra Egri Almási J. Csaba, 1990. – Courtesy Ludwig Múzeum – Kortárs Művészeti Múzeum Half-naked and with a silk sash supposedly around his neck, Tamás Király was found dead in his own apartment after... [READ MORE]
Prose The Maintenance and Preservation of Life December 16, 2019 By Christina Moon In the middle of my move, I pack boxes of things and throw other things away. So many things are... [READ MORE]
Prose The iconography of longing, pain, genius, beauty and excess November 21, 2019 By Christopher Breward The examination of ‘the image of the homosexual as a sad young man,’ is in essence a critique of stereotypes... [READ MORE]
Prose Drop it low Dress as a political statement in Iran September 24, 2019 By Alex Bruni In contemporary Iran the way women dress has become a political statement. Officially, there is no choice in the matter... [READ MORE]
Prose Staging Authenticity The Sacred and the Profane September 5, 2019 By Gudrun Willcocks Enter: resplendent male warriors known as baris enter carrying sharp, pointed spears. They wear embroidered gold and red shields over... [READ MORE]
Prose THE DISMEMBERED BODY: NOTES ON FASHION, FETISH, AND SHAME July 26, 2019 By Marya Hornbacher Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O’Keeffe, Hands and Breasts, 1919. Of what does a woman consist? Where does her selfhood reside? In some Platonic form Woman, the theoretical perfection of... [READ MORE]
Prose The Making of A Star July 8, 2019 By Philippa Snow What was difficult for Marilyn – or for Norma Jeane, who lived inside the Marilyn persona – was her need... [READ MORE]
Prose Old Teen June 10, 2019 By Lucy Ives Threva Throneberry pretended for over a decade to be fourteen, fifteen, or sixteen. She presented herself as a fresh-faced, pigtailed... [READ MORE]
Prose Tutti-Frutti Camp Acts of Defiance May 14, 2019 By Karen Van Godtsenhoven Carmen Miranda's brief life span ended abruptly in 1955. Known as 'the Brazilian Bombshell' throughout her life, she was trapped... [READ MORE]