The Antihero’s New Clothes
The Honourable Woman’s Fashionable Armour
The luxurious tactility and visual appeal of silk provide a striking contrast with the panic room Nessa, the star of...
Costume Design
A Conversation with Kenneth Anger
Few directors have been as prolific in their lifetime as Kenneth Anger. Blending surrealism and the occult with homoeroticism, psychodrama...
The Antihero’s New Clothes
The first TV show to feature a transgender protagonist, Transparent's protagonist Mort, and her transition into becoming Maura, sets into...
The Antihero’s New Clothes
While initially the difference in 'UnREAL' between those dressing for the part – the reality TV show contestants – and...
‘A society of ugly people is an immoral society’
In 1920, a group of youth leaders walked out of the Boy Scout movement in Britain, disillusioned with the increasing...
Expanding Fashion
In 1997 choreographer Merce Cunningham invited fashion designer Rei Kawakubo to work with him on a dance piece, the result...
Everything has to be Bigger
As a platform for performance, the stage lends itself ideally to the pushing of sartorial boundaries to entertain an audience,...