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Prose
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Fashion and architecture are both telling symbols of the personal, social and cultural identity of an age, reflecting as they...
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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...
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Real Fakes
Fashion wares for sale in a street market are widely considered to be the final stage in a product-cycle bracket....
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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,...
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Lucifer Rising
Filmed between 1966 and 1980 by the self-proclaimed Magus of cinema, Kenneth Anger, Lucifer Rising is Anger's portrait of the...
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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,...
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Fashion Blogs
The blogger and the city; this crucial dynamic is an important and oft neglected aspect of fashion blogs – a...
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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;...
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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...
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Fierce Fashion
Many women have begun to dip into the blog world, penning their own ideas about fashion, beauty and the fashion...
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BY THE BOOK?
This month sees the second instalment of former French Vogue editor Carine Roitfeld's new biannual publication, CR Fashion Book. But...
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The Power of the Logo
The power of fashion as a purveyor of possible selves has long been documented and discussed in fashion literature from...