Reflections
If fashion truly is this thing that swirls and surges forth, if it changes and shapes our times, what happens...
Opinion
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...
Are fashion designers made or born?
The discourse on class mobility is pervasive in contemporary India, and is in itself seen to be one of liberalised...
What’s the pointe?
'Ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers and man is the gardener,’...
Race To The Middle
The show simultaneously embraces capitalism and activism at once. Queens are both encouraged to build their own brands, while also...
A Costume Of Herself
Picasso has not yet been honoured with a retrospective on his personal aesthetic, nor has the one-time Comme des Garçons...
On Michael Cohen’s Jackets
Cohen favours indiscreet European luxury: Hermès ‘H’ belts, Italian tailoring, open-necked shirts. He wears clothes like sportscars wear their badges....
The Hat
There is today no stronger argument against the claim of Humanness in women, of Human Dignity and Human Rights, than...
The Whistleblower’s New Clothes
Christopher Wylie had an outfit. His whistle was directed not at a government, but its nebulous digital equivalent; perhaps it...
On Fashion
Never, perhaps, have women been better coiffed: hair is waved, frizzed, braided, raised up into wings, brushed back and twisted...