IS THIS APPROPRIATE?

Reverend Erin Jean Warde on Adapting a Timeworn Uniform

October 17, 2016

By Olivia Aylmer

I love fashion generally – I've always loved it. On my Sabbath, I read InStyle sometimes. I mean, I read the Bible as well, but I do love a good InStyle. I follow 'Project Runway' and I love 'What Not to Wear' and all those sorts of things. I already had this teenage interest in fashion. Then I realised I...

Keywords: Active Stance Against Stuffiness, Is This Inappropriate?, Modesty & Dress, The spiritual realm, Uniforms

WHY BEING A DEMOCRAT IS ALWAYS FASHIONABLE

Dressing in US Election Times

September 27, 2016

Designer Katharine Hamnett wears a T-shirt broadcasting public opposition to the stationing of nuclear missles in the UK while meeting Margaret Thatcher in 1984.

Before there was Clinton swag, there was Obama swag. Before there was Obama swag, there was Kerry swag. Whom are...

Band of Insiders

On the Secret of Success

September 20, 2016

Photograph by Dan Holdsworth

If fashion ‘wants to kill’ its practitioners, that’s because it epitomises capitalist innovation at its bare essence, consisting of the...

Lost on Dress Parade

September 13, 2016

Costume drawings by Marc Chagall for a 1942 production of the ballet 'Aleko'

Up Broadway Chandler moved with the vespertine dress parade. For this evening he was an exhibit as well as a...

The Antihero’s New Clothes

The Honourable Woman’s Fashionable Armour

September 6, 2016

By Alex Esculapio

Nessa in her panic room.

The luxurious tactility and visual appeal of silk provide a striking contrast with the panic room Nessa, the star of...

Coming of Age

Representing the older generation: a model’s perspective

September 1, 2016

Loulou Van Damme by Sushant Chhabria for Elle India

The classic model is a known prototype in the modeling industry, underpinned by a discourse of enduring youthfulness, a woman...

A Conversation with Kenneth Anger

On the evil forces of cinema

August 24, 2016

Few directors have been as prolific in their lifetime as Kenneth Anger. Blending surrealism and the occult with homoeroticism, psychodrama...