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...
Prose
The Clothes They Were Buried In
Having your ashes placed in a handbag by Louis Vuitton is another way of writing a love-letter, not to a...
Docile Bodies
Prison Uniforms and the Dress of Subservience
Prison literature and theory often focuses on the oppressiveness of the system, the callous discipline enforced on the prisoner, the...
The side hustle in your closet
As our real-life identities become blurred with those of our online avatars, so do our notions of work and play,...
Xanadu, drained
When lockdown was announced, the luxury stores seized their shoes, bags and belts. The high street left theirs in full...
Loving, Sharing, Giving
A New Theory for the Fashion System
Concepts like competitiveness, egotism, status and obedience to authority lie at the heart of the current organisation of the fashion...
The Death of the Lanyard
In 2014, a woman posed a question to the 1.1 million members of a Reddit thread called Female Fashion Advice....
A Fucking Raw Deal
Designing Motherhood the All American Way
Maternity and fashion have long been uneasy bedfellows. It wasn’t until the early twentieth century that maternity clothing was even...
Tamás Király: Hungary’s King of Fashion
Half-naked and with a silk sash supposedly around his neck, Tamás Király was found dead in his own apartment after...
The Maintenance and Preservation of Life
In the middle of my move, I pack boxes of things and throw other things away. So many things are...
The iconography of longing, pain, genius, beauty and excess
The examination of ‘the image of the homosexual as a sad young man,’ is in essence a critique of stereotypes...
Drop it low
In contemporary Iran the way women dress has become a political statement. Officially, there is no choice in the matter...