Keeping in Touch
Suzy Menkes’ ‘digital-first’ approach asks, how do fashion critics stay relevant?
‘You have to be relevant’ – thus spoke Suzy Menkes in a recent interview. But while Suzy Menkes remains one...
Opinion
Gods and Kings
There is a tendency, across fashion exhibitions and publishing, to portray the fashion designer as a creative genius. The ‘Alexander...
Between Words
Filled with mentions of Renzo Rosso’s personal relationships with political and religious figures (the Dalai Lama and Shimon Peres are...
Between Words
Historically, fashion has an uncomfortable relationship with critique: mainstream media coverage by newspapers and magazines often shy away from rigour...
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...
Being Modern: Alexander Liberman
Why does Alexander Liberman still matter sixteen years after his death? For anyone under thirty and not in the magazine...
Fashion’s Footnote
Referring both to bodies and to dress, ‘plus-size’ lends a hefty weight to the hackneyed notion that ‘you are what...
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...