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Opinion
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Filled with mentions of Renzo Rosso’s personal relationships with political and religious figures (the Dalai Lama and Shimon Peres are...
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Between Words
Historically, fashion has an uncomfortable relationship with critique: mainstream media coverage by newspapers and magazines often shy away from rigour...
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The More You Subtract, The More You Add
As far as I know, I was the first person to study the image of women in advertising. I started...
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Being Modern: Alexander Liberman
Why does Alexander Liberman still matter sixteen years after his death? For anyone under thirty and not in the magazine...
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Fashion’s Footnote
Referring both to bodies and to dress, ‘plus-size’ lends a hefty weight to the hackneyed notion that ‘you are what...
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Fashion Writing: On Fighting the System
It’s an open secret in the industry that advertising brands dictate editorial content, sometimes explicitly, often tacitly. Stories of reporters...
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Linguistic Determinism
The clothing industry has recently seen the introduction of new garments which fall outside of existing definitions. These innovations bring...
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The Personal Stylists
Unravelling the Wardrobes of the Fashion Industry’s Powerful Personas
In the fiercely transient world of fashion media, emerges a pack of fashion’s most distinguishable characters. The personal style of...
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The Art-Fashion Tangle
Separating the art and fashion worlds from each has become increasingly difficult in contemporary culture: fashion, which has long been...
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Perfectly Hideous
Against an over-saturation of images and information, our aesthetic judgments are complicated by the coexistence of ‘beauty’ and ‘ugliness’ within...
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Hybrid Bodies
Is there a space between the construction of fashion and its otherness? Fashion photographer Mario Testino implicitly investigates these questions...
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Abject Attraction
Fashion photography is often criticised for presenting visually disturbing images as eye candy, and, as Caroline Evans has pointed out...