Draping the Feminist Revolution
In the last few years, the word 'feminism' has gained a new currency in the fashion industry. Emblematically written on...
Fashion in Film
From Style Icon to Fashion Victim
Masculinity and Spectacle in the James Bond franchise
In a new millennium, Bond is faced with many difficult tasks; these have included parachuting into the London Olympics beside...
The Colour of Oil and Money
A Conversation With Manuel Cuevas Sr, Designer of Western Wear
I’ve dressed kings, queens, beggars, prostitutes, lawyers, bankers. I dressed Gram Parsons, Dolly Parton, John Wayne, Sylvester Stallone, The Rolling...
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...
Paris is Burning
Revisiting the Seminal Film by Jennie Livingston
Desire. Intention. Ambition. If fashion has long been the crowning companion of the wealthy, it can also be a powerful...
Fashion and the Moving Image
With the power to transgress social codes and conventions, clothes can reveal themselves as a weapon, a provocation, a liberation;...
FASHION AND THE MOVING IMAGE
In the realm of spectacle, fashion and image reign. Agents of illusion and artifice, they play a role within the...