Material Memories
For most of us, our closets are home to sentimental garments with a story to tell alongside clothes we tend...
Prose
Street Wearing
The concrete stage of a street-scape is where fashion becomes visible, meaningful, and most importantly, embodied. From the mundane surrounds...
Text Appeal
In October 2012, Prada announced the winners of its Prada Journal contest, an initiative, in partnership with Italian publishers Giangiacomo...
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...
Fashion Documents
Since 1967, filmmaker Frederick Wiseman has produced an enormously influential and insightful series of documentaries. Over the course of some...
Dressing for Success
The Business Suit and Corporate Culture: Ron Jude’s Executive Model
Few fashion archetypes measure up as having the symbolic power that the ‘business suit’ has. The suit is both a...
Repeated Gestures
The street photographer, as opposed to a studio image-maker, engages with a working process that observes and captures events and...
Keywords on Dress: Glamour
The word 'glamour' at its origins, is derived from the English word 'grammar'. The Scottish adapted the term to 'gram(m)arye'...
Loose Fit
Founded in 1929 by radiologist Alfred Jordan, along with a collection of eugenicists, the Men's Dress Reform Group was formed...
Wilde’s White Shirt
Oscar Wilde's influence in both his prose and personal style has reached a mythical and iconic status, yet of the...
Gele & Suku
Discussion of the fashioned body so often focuses on clothing; but, no less a realm for the symbolic power of...