Gele & Suku

Style Above the Collar

September 10, 2013

By Anja Aronowsky Cronberg

Discussion of the fashioned body so often focuses on clothing; but, no less a realm for the symbolic power of fashion, is the head. In today's post we raise our eyes to one of the many such cultural phenomena that sits on the highest peak of the human body

Keywords: Cultural Power of Dress, J.D. ‘Okhai Ojeikere, London's Kingsland Road, The Fashioned Body

Paris is Burning

Revisiting the Seminal Film by Jennie Livingston

September 5, 2013

By Sophie Pinchetti

A still from Paris is Burning (1990) by Jennie Livingston. Colour, Sound, 71mins.

Desire. Intention. Ambition. If fashion has long been the crowning companion of the wealthy, it can also be a powerful...

The Sound and the Fury

Excerpt from the novel by William Faulkner

August 29, 2013

By Anja Aronowsky Cronberg

Images by Katerina Jebb

The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of grey light out of the north-east which, instead of dissolving...

The Only Way is Up!

Fashion and Architecture in the Eighties

August 21, 2013

By Merel van der Toorn

Fashion and architecture are both telling symbols of the personal, social and cultural identity of an age, reflecting as they...

A Letter to a Girl on the Future of Clothes

Excerpt from the text by James Laver

By Anja Aronowsky Cronberg

One of the first costume scholars, and a long-time conservator at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, James Laver...

Real Fakes

London's Petticoat Lane

By Anja Aronowsky Cronberg

Fashion wares for sale in a street market are widely considered to be the final stage in a product-cycle bracket....

Perfectly Hideous

Beauty and Ugliness in Contemporary Fashion

By Emily McGuire

Against an over-saturation of images and information, our aesthetic judgments are complicated by the coexistence of ‘beauty’ and ‘ugliness’ within...