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...
Anja Aronowsky Cronberg
A Conversation With J Alexander
I felt like an outsider because I wanted to be a part of that group but I couldn’t afford it....
Leaving Home, Part One
A Conversation with Bushra Al-Fusail 'I only have a few things from home now. One is a cotton scarf, it’s...
Fabulous, Fabulous, Fabulous
We practice what we call ‘security with a velvet touch.’ We stay in the shadows. The PRs check people in,...
Talking about Doubt with Virgil Abloh
My investigation, my work, my trajectory speaks, I hope, to a generation of young black people who need to know...
Conversations on Power: Irene Silvagni
Q&A with Irene Silvagni, Former Creative Director, Yohji Yamamoto
Irene Silvagni died on March 23 after a long illness, but throughout her long career she was one of the...
A Pair of Sneakers
How many miles of endless asphalt haven’t I covered in these shoes, and in how many cities? This pair of...
TALKING ABOUT DOUBT WITH ALESSANDRO MICHELE
CREATIVE DIRECTOR, GUCCI, ROME
Fashion can be so… come si dice… autoreferenziale. Self-referential? It’s crazy to me that a creative director should use a...
The last time I wore trads in the West
Moving between continents and cultures like I do requires some skill when it comes to dressing. I remember once, six...
A Conversation with Murray Hill
Growing up, I had no consciousness of gender but at a certain point in school we were separated by it,...
Leaving Home, Part Three
A Conversation with Mohammad Saeed 'Clothes are very important because people always look at what you wear. They don’t think...
Leaving Home, Part Two
A Conversation with Abdul-Wahed Daaboul 'All my clothes were taken: my jacket, a T-shirt that my best friend gave me...