Keywords in Dress: The Fashion Cycle
The Fashion Cycle, or Trend Cycle, helps us trace a garment’s journey from ‘in’ to ‘out’ of fashion. It’s a...
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Keywords in Dress: Unisex
The term ‘unisex’, rather fittingly, was coined in the Sixties. Prefixing ‘sex’ with ‘uni–‘ (meaning ‘one’) in the context of...
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
The dress she would wear was laying out on the bed. Hazel and Etta had both been good about lending...
Keywords in Dress: Denim
Jeans are one of the most powerful clothing icons of the twentieth-century. Famously named after the French town of Nîmes...
Keywords in Dress: Collar
The word ‘collar’ presents a sort of curt simplicity that seems to fit its form and function as an object...
Carrie
“Take it off, Carrie. We’ll go down and burn it in the incinerator together, and then pray for forgiveness. We’ll...
Dialogue Between Fashion and Death
Giacomo Leopardi and the Thin Veil Between Fashion and Mortality
The Romantic poem ‘Dialogue Between Fashion and Death’ is curious and resonating work that deals with the powerful connection between...
Myth-Making in the Fashion Magazine
Released in 1874, the same year of its demise, Mallarmé’s La Dernière Mode, is a magazine/art project/journal on fashion that...
Expanding Fashion: The Prada Transformer
Fashion’s love affair with architecture is, at least at face value, an aspirational one, the academic tendencies of architectural discourse...
Expanding Fashion
The creative marriage between James Dyson and Issey Miyake Design Studio has given birth to a series of projects between...
Expanding Fashion
In 1997 choreographer Merce Cunningham invited fashion designer Rei Kawakubo to work with him on a dance piece, the result...
Loose Fit
Founded in 1929 by radiologist Alfred Jordan, along with a collection of eugenicists, the Men's Dress Reform Group was formed...