‘You have to be relevant’ – thus spoke Suzy Menkes in a recent interview. But while Suzy Menkes remains one of the most publicly celebrated fashion journalists, is hers still a significant voice?

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Interview

WHAT’S WRONG WITH THE FASHION INDUSTRY?

February 22, 2016

By Anja Aronowsky Cronberg

'Fashion is like a banana. No, don’t laugh. I’ll tell you what I mean. Sometimes designers complain to me that...

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Prose

THE SELF ON DISPLAY

Vivienne Westwood by Vivienne Westwood and Ian Kelly

February 15, 2016

By Alex Esculapio

Vivienne Westwood's ability to provoke public discussion – both through her fashion and her media appearances – has characterised her...

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Fiction

The Overcoat

Excerpt from the short story

February 8, 2016

By Nikolai Gogol

With illustrations by Kristen Martincic

Petrovich worked at the cloak two whole weeks, for there was a great deal of quilting: otherwise it would have...

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Opinion

Gods and Kings

Dethroning the fashion designer as creative genius

February 1, 2016

By Harriette Richards

With artworks by Silvie Deutsch

There is a tendency, across fashion exhibitions and publishing, to portray the fashion designer as a creative genius. The ‘Alexander...

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Opinion

Between Words

On our expectations of fashion journalism

January 27, 2016

By Anja Aronowsky Cronberg and Laura Gardner

Filled with mentions of Renzo Rosso’s personal relationships with political and religious figures (the Dalai Lama and Shimon Peres are...

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Prose

‘A society of ugly people is an immoral society’

Bodily beauty in the Kindred of the Kibbo Kift

January 18, 2016

By Dr Annebella Pollen

In 1920, a group of youth leaders walked out of the Boy Scout movement in Britain, disillusioned with the increasing...

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