Mending at the Margins
Repair in My London Neighbourhood
What Adil was saying is that everyone wants an office-based job. His comment made me think about the contemporary office...
Opinion
‘Elevate the human race, putting makeup on my face’
In the age of advanced digital technology, perhaps it is fair to question whether human toil remains the essential component...
MAKE IT TILL YOU FAKE IT
The meaning of luxury has collapsed not only to outsiders but from within as well. In order to tap into...
Joan Didion Wrote How She Dressed
Fashion was an area of play and analysis throughout Joan Didion’s career as a writer. In the relationship between character...
Humanistic Luxury: Falling Short of Change
Humanistic Luxury brands justify their higher luxury margins by the value they bring to artisan communities by engaging them in...
(The Cruelty of) Happy Narratives
In lifestyle and fashion magazines, celebrity profiles tend to unfold as stories about successful overcoming of difficulties. Magazines present fame...
Splendour and Subversion
The intersections between fashion and politics in Colombia
Fashion is a polysemic category. When it comes to thinking about it critically, there’s one aspect I particularly like: the...
Freedom!
‘Freedom’ is a word that is shamelessly overused in fashion media and fashion marketing. The term is a staple of...
Straps, Cut-outs, Slits
Eroticism and Immodesty in Contemporary Fashion
It makes complete sense that the ties and pulleys of this trend conjure to mind a construction site, while the...
Living with Disability
Mine is a tricky position; I might be living with disability, but I am not a disabled person. I face...
Notes on Doubt
Relevance is certainly a status given by the system, sometimes rather arbitrarily, but it also gives worth to one’s efforts....
A Stain on an All-American Brand
What lesson are we to take from this evidence of profiteering from human servitude in the foundational years of Brooks...