Illustration by Mark Hall-Patch

The clothes we wear and the items we carry represent us so fully, they can speak of who we are even in our absence. As such they become talismans of our presence, helping to calibrate our selves with our environment.

Keywords: Fletcher Jones, Genderlessness, Speaking Dress, Stuart Tartan, Tartan Kilts

Experiences

Power Dressing

February 14, 2015

By Anja Aronowsky Cronberg

Power Dressing examines how clothes emphasise certain roles in power structures, and what happens to our expectations of those roles...

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Experiences

The Vestoj Storytelling Salon, New York

February 14, 2015

By Anja Aronowsky Cronberg

The Vestoj Storytelling Salon in New York brought together six people who have shaped the New York fashion scene over...

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Prose

The Fig Leaf Mentality

On Power, Masculinity, Patriarchy and Man's Most Precious Ornament

February 9, 2015

By Shaun Cole

It was a particular form of masculinity and male expression that Eldridge Cleaver believed had been suppressed through conventional male...

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Interview

Speaking Dress

With Ingrid Gow

February 2, 2015

By Shana Chandra

Illustration by Mark Hall-Patch

As well as a harbour for stories and memories; dress has a protective force, guarding us as we present ourselves...

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Interview

Conversations on Slowness

On Travelling the World and Telling Stories

January 20, 2015

By Anja Aronowsky Cronberg

Interview conducted with David Myron, with portrait by Louise Riley

Spending time with Nigel Cabourn is a little like being carried along by a minor tornado. He talks a mile...

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Interview

Speaking Dress

With Hamza Kaddur

January 19, 2015

By Shana Chandra

Illustration by Mark Hall-Patch

The items we possess and clothes we wear have unspoken power in our lives; in function, but as anchors to...

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