‘GOOD TIME’ AND PASSING TIME

A conversation with Betsy Bloomingdale

By Kevin Jones and Christina Johnson

In 2009 FIDM Museum in Los Angeles, exhibited Betsy Bloomingdale's vast collection of haute couture, donated to the museum over some forty years. The wardrobe, amassed between 1961 and 1996, includes pieces from Marc Bohan for Dior, Oscar De La Renta, Hubert de Givenchy, Yves Saint Laurent and André Courrèges, among others. For Vestoj's inaugural issue, On Material Memories, the...

Keywords: Halston headress, Haute Couture, Marc Bohan for Dior, On Material Memories, The Bal Oriental

William Morris on Textile Fabrics

By Anja Aronowsky Cronberg

Graphite illustrations by Robert Otto Epstein

In his lecture to the International Health Exhibition at the South Kensington Museum, London in 1884, William Morris gives a...

Clothing as Coding

Towards a new definition of technology in fashion

By Claire Marie Healy

Like all new-borns, wearable technologies are invariably smooth, precious and pure. In an i-Device era, the consumer is hidden from...

Bernice Bobs Her Hair

Excerpt from F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1922 short story

By Anja Aronowsky Cronberg

Bending over she found one of the braids of Marjorie's hair, followed it up with her hand to the point...

Gold Collar

By Veronica Martin

With illustrations by Alicia Meseguer

Veronica Martin's 'Gold Collar' is about things. The things on our bodies and in our spaces and the intimate distance...

Fashion’s Footnote

Early Uses and Shifting Meanings of Plus-Size

By Lauren Downing Peters

Referring both to bodies and to dress, ‘plus-size’ lends a hefty weight to the hackneyed notion that ‘you are what...

CONVERSATIONS ON SLOWNESS

Dries Van Noten on Avoiding Traps, Trickery and Other Shenanigans

By Anja Aronowsky Cronberg

Portrait by Louise Riley

Dries Van Noten speaks with care and reserve, like someone well aware of his privileged position in the fashion industry....