Blank Looks
Emerging from fashion photography and styling that was intended as more realistic portrayal of fashion, the androgynous waif was a...
Prose
Imagined Nostalgia & False Memories
We have seen how the vintage aesthetic can be employed in order to reconnect with bygone times, how it can...
Fashion & Memory
Unravelling twentieth-century fashion's relationship with memory and perpetual pursuit of the new
Fashion and photography share certain characteristics. Each claims the status of art, yet remains at its margins. The claims of...
Beyond the Bared Breast
Austrian-American designer Rudi Gernreich is best known for his topless bathing suit, or the ‘monokini’ as it was dubbed, embodied...
Fashion Through the Mobile Lens
The digital screen and fashion form the cornerstones of modern day consumer culture. Now the two are increasingly fused, but...
The Bryanboy Gesture
The much-appropriated Bryanboy gesture – one hand at waist, hip cocked with the other hand is held high, proudly clutching...
The Birkin
In 2011, a ‘Birkin’ bag, the iconic Hermès made-to-measure travelgood, sold for a record price of $US203,000 at Heritage, an...
Mainbocher & the Decline of the Socialite
A quick Google search on ‘socialite’ will inevitably come up with any number of recognisable faces from twenty-first century celebrity...
Style in Space
NASA sought public engagement by inviting audiences to vote on the design of their new generation of spacesuit, and as...
The New Leisure Class
Thorstein Veblen’s Theory and Tweed in the Twenty-first Century
The American economist and sociologist Thorstein Veblen’s The Theory of the Leisure Class remains an influential work in sartorial studies,...
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...