Fashion’s Footnote
Referring both to bodies and to dress, ‘plus-size’ lends a hefty weight to the hackneyed notion that ‘you are what...
Opinion
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...
Linguistic Determinism
The clothing industry has recently seen the introduction of new garments which fall outside of existing definitions. These innovations bring...
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...
The Art-Fashion Tangle
Separating the art and fashion worlds from each has become increasingly difficult in contemporary culture: fashion, which has long been...
Perfectly Hideous
Against an over-saturation of images and information, our aesthetic judgments are complicated by the coexistence of ‘beauty’ and ‘ugliness’ within...
Hybrid Bodies
Is there a space between the construction of fashion and its otherness? Fashion photographer Mario Testino implicitly investigates these questions...
Abject Attraction
Fashion photography is often criticised for presenting visually disturbing images as eye candy, and, as Caroline Evans has pointed out...
Interns Make the World go ‘Round
A quick online search for fashion internships and you will find ‘dream jobs for fashion divas’ alongside ‘fashion intern horror...
Fashion Grammar
Given its infancy in the world of academia, fashion studies still shows signs of a discipline in the making, measuring...
The Power of the Logo
The power of fashion as a purveyor of possible selves has long been documented and discussed in fashion literature from...
Can fashion ever be democratic?
That fashion is constantly on the move, shifting and changing as soon as we think we have a firm grasp...