Get Distressed: An Introduction to the Market for Thrashed Clothes

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 around what constitutes vintage versus just old or second-hand. The timeframe is always in flux, and depends on what generation you’re coming from.

Keywords: Balenciaga, Entropy, Fashioned dirt, Hashtagged, Only good shit

DRESSING WITH MOTHERS

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...

Magic Carpet Ride

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

Mending at the Margins

Repair in My London Neighbourhood

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...

Little Doubts Everywhere

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...

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...

Fabulous, Fabulous, Fabulous

An interview with Ty Yorio, Citadel Security Agency

February 6, 2025

By Anja Aronowsky Cronberg

We practice what we call ‘security with a velvet touch.’ We stay in the shadows. The PRs check people in,...