Whose Streets?

The Fashion Window Now: A Contested Surface

Whose Streets?
Versus in SoHo, New York City, June 2020. Photograph by Alexis Romano.
Shop window displays serve to crystallise, animate and narrate various meanings of fashion. They provide information on sartorial items, and demonstrate how to use them, all while training us to view fashion in relation to lifestyle. We learn to fantasise, and to aspire to certain ideals. Their presence asserts that fashion is life, and spectacle. As in the past, they...

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