Harold Feinstein, Child's Back in Mother's Arms / Putney Vermont, 1974. Courtesy ICP.

My mother tells a story about wheeling me around in a supermarket shopping cart as a toddler, wearing so many tops and T-shirts simultaneously that my arms stuck straight out like a snowman.

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Opinion

Get Distressed: An Introduction to the Market for Thrashed Clothes

May 15, 2025

By Sonya Abrego

Judith Scott, Figure 9 Untitled, 2002. Courtesy Brooklyn Museum.

Vintage has never been more visible, but that doesn’t make it any easier to define. There were never hard-set rules...

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Prose

DRESSING WITH MOTHERS

May 6, 2025

By Giuliana Mazzetta and Hamutal Hayun

Tsila Hayun by Haim Hayun, sometime in the late 1990s. Courtesy the author.

As daughters, we are privy to a deeply intimate space: a space where our mothers could be themselves, where they...

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Prose

Magic Carpet Ride

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By Emma Aars

‘There is almost like a desire to distract you,’ said the Turner prize-winning artist Elizabeth Price about the carpets in...

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Opinion

Mending at the Margins

Repair in My London Neighbourhood

April 10, 2025

By Diamond Abdulrahim

Gene Badger, Man Assembling Leather Football Shoes, 1941. Courtesy ICP.

What Adil was saying is that everyone wants an office-based job. His comment made me think about the contemporary office...

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Prose

Little Doubts Everywhere

March 20, 2025

By Aurelie Van de Peer and Merel Lefevere

In the 21st century ‘little doubts’ have entered the field of fashion at its core: from doubts about the necessity...

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Prose

When Things Fall Apart

February 14, 2025

By Issabella Orlando

When I want to conjure the image of my mother, I think first of her closet. The walk-in wardrobe at...

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