Prose
Next I take out my morning suit – made in 1938 by Airey and Wheeler of 129 Regent Street for...
The Grey Agenda
Bolton and Browne are two of the most influential men in fashion today. Both of them are gay and both...
All The Ways Mascara Runs
What Erotic Thrillers Have to Tell Us About the Parallels Between Hedonism and Fear
Movies about sex are also movies about power; the way women in these films are dressed says something about the...
A Runner’s Relapse into Online Shopping
I shopped like it was my job. It proved my organisational skills and my ability to distinguish tacky from trendy....
Magic Carpet Ride
‘There is almost like a desire to distract you,’ said the Turner prize-winning artist Elizabeth Price about the carpets in...
The Clothes horse
Watch, as the mother breaks away from the herd, refusing to be tamed by her new role. The transition...
Dressed up and Laying Bare
In a plane of crisp sunlight that angles down through the door frame, and dissolves into rust-coloured shadows settling across...
Moths
Next I take out my morning suit – made in 1938 by Airey and Wheeler of 129 Regent Street for...
Period Piece: A Cambridge Childhood
I remember, when I was at school in 1902, walking at the back of our Sunday crocodile, and seeing all...
DRESSING WITH MOTHERS
As daughters, we are privy to a deeply intimate space: a space where our mothers could be themselves, where they...
THE TYGER IN THE CHANGING ROOM
‘THE ACCURSED SHARE’ REVISITED IN TIMES OF THE DIRECT–TO–CONSUMER FASHION ECONOMY
The surplus of time and money of the Upper East Side clientele is mirrored in the quiet and calm behaviour...
A FASHION DICTIONARY
Karl loved paper and reading was his truest joy. His protestant work ethic helped him shine in the fashion industry....