I’M A VIRGIN (BUT THIS IS AN OLD SHIRT)
Reflecting on the slogans and celebrities of L.A. retail chain Kitson
It’s strange now, in hindsight, to think about all the world's girls in their Juicy-brand tracksuits amid the Clenbuterol boom,...
Opinion
‘Hidden Power Mechanisms of Social Dominion’
Nose-diving profits mean that Vogue is more than ever beholden to advertisers, which pundits consider a barrier to candid coverage....
FAILED BODIES, FAILED SUBJECTS?
On Ideal Body Shapes and Makeover Culture
The stereotype of the self-loathing cosmetic surgery patient can be found in the annals of psychiatry. Lacking much in the...
Whose Streets?
The Fashion Window Now: A Contested Surface
Shop window displays serve to crystallise, animate and narrate various meanings of fashion. They provide information on sartorial items, and...
Optical Tactility
On Touching, and Fashion For When We Can't
It could be easy to dismiss digital clothing as a poor replication of physical clothing or, more strongly, as part...
A disease origin story
Disease origin stories, while important, can lead to dangerous narratives. We need to recognise that the hegemony of global supply...
Doomsday Marketing
Or How Only the Rich Will Survive
Today's most savvy cultural producers know that we’ve begun to feel helpless in the face of climate catastrophe, rising fascism...
La Moda Feminista
Feminist Aesthetics in Colombia and Latin America
The clothes worn by the performers evoked the ways in which women often dress to have fun and to dance,...
Reflections
If fashion truly is this thing that swirls and surges forth, if it changes and shapes our times, what happens...
Decolonising Fashion
Defying the 'White Man's Gaze'
Evaluating the work of designers outside the established fashion capitals according to (references made to) their cultural identity not only...
PC Couture
On the intersections of ‘political correctness’ and creativity
If fashion designers can and should shock and provoke, isn’t social media outrage not only to be expected, but also...
SCHRÖDINGER’S JEANS
Cambridge Analytica’s model is based on the premise that fashion has solid, unequivocal meanings that can be used to profile...