Alice ’71 in Wonderland

Monosex Couture and Gender Fluidity in the 1970s

By Ilene Hacker

Two years after the Paris 1968 student riots, Parisian couturier Jacques Esterel launched a timely couture collection for men and women that responded to the shifting gender ideals of the time. Resplendent with matching his and hers outfits and unisexwear, Esterel's looks seemed to reflect a breakdown of the fashion system and the gender issues that were a result of...

Keywords: A Dress for Him Too, Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture, Unisex, Utopic Vision, Virility

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Full disclosure

How Sponsorship Affects Fashion Coverage

By Laura Gardner

The relationship between advertising (brand) and editorial (publication) in fashion has never been straightforward. As journalism scholar Lynda Davis argues...

Lydia Lunch

On the Only Material Possession that Holds Any Importance to Her

By Anja Aronowsky Cronberg

Illustration by Jenny Mörtsell

My role model when I was six was my aunt Dorothy. She was 5 ft tall with a 1 ft...

Rhapsody in Blue

Ruminations on the Plastic Overshoe

Artwork by Meg Franklin

Crumpled all together in a basket, waiting to be picked up, the commonly blue greeting sits by the entrance of...

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Hacking the System?

Are You Ready To Remain Dazed & Confused?

By Laura Gardner

As publisher and director of Dazed Digital, Jefferson Hack oversees an editorial and media empire that now incorporates AnOther Magazine,...

What’s wrong with the fashion industry?

By Anja Aronowsky Cronberg

'We’ve had few failures that can compare to John Galliano’s recent one. I guess the best way to describe it...

Cult Status

On the sartorial detachment of Heaven’s Gate

By Alex Esculapio

In March 1997 thirty-nine people were found dead in a mansion in Rancho Santa Fe, California, an upscale suburb of...