The Deformed Thief, Fashion
‘They’ decide everything. ‘They’ know whether it is to be pink or green this fall, whether it's to be short...
Prose
Static Speed
If the fashion show and pose are essentially historic, tied to the modernist movement of the twentieth century, then maybe...
Model Status
Celebrities who are famous for being famous often try to distance themselves from the shallowness of their fame by emphatically...
A Love Letter to My Father
When he was out running errands or working in his study, bent over a book or teaching the students who...
Thoughts on Proximity, Progression and Proportion in Street Choreographics
Despite the state rhetoric of ‘locking down’ our physical movements haven’t been suspended, they have adapted: adapted to demonstrate our...
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...
Fashion and the Fleshy Body
Individuals feel a social and moral imperative to perform their identity in particular ways, and this includes learning appropriate ways...
The Instagrammable Shopping Centre
As the service industry has taken over goods, the parameters of conspicuous consumption have also shifted. The ‘lifestyle experience’ is...
Neutrals and Neons
My mother has not held a job in nearly fifty years. This is not because she chose to be a...
Slow Time Is God’s Time
An Amish catechism manual devotes nine pages and forty-three questions and answers to dress – second only to the topic...
Motherhood and Money
To be pregnant, and then to be a mother, is to be reliant on others – to greater and lesser...
Mythical Beasts
Global Lessons from the Mongol Past
The Chinese dragon is Chinese, but how did it become so? And what does 'Chinese' even mean in the context...