Gele & Suku
Discussion of the fashioned body so often focuses on clothing; but, no less a realm for the symbolic power of...
Prose
Paris is Burning
Revisiting the Seminal Film by Jennie Livingston
Desire. Intention. Ambition. If fashion has long been the crowning companion of the wealthy, it can also be a powerful...
The Only Way is Up!
Fashion and architecture are both telling symbols of the personal, social and cultural identity of an age, reflecting as they...
A Letter to a Girl on the Future of Clothes
One of the first costume scholars, and a long-time conservator at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, James Laver...
Real Fakes
Fashion wares for sale in a street market are widely considered to be the final stage in a product-cycle bracket....
Everything has to be Bigger
As a platform for performance, the stage lends itself ideally to the pushing of sartorial boundaries to entertain an audience,...
Lucifer Rising
Filmed between 1966 and 1980 by the self-proclaimed Magus of cinema, Kenneth Anger, Lucifer Rising is Anger's portrait of the...
The Monochromatic Power of the White Shirt
The white shirt: a neutral surface and the basis of a man’s wardrobe – according to many-a-style manual. And thus,...
Fashion Blogs
The blogger and the city; this crucial dynamic is an important and oft neglected aspect of fashion blogs – a...
Fashion and the Moving Image
With the power to transgress social codes and conventions, clothes can reveal themselves as a weapon, a provocation, a liberation;...
FASHION AND THE MOVING IMAGE
In the realm of spectacle, fashion and image reign. Agents of illusion and artifice, they play a role within the...
Fierce Fashion
Many women have begun to dip into the blog world, penning their own ideas about fashion, beauty and the fashion...