Putting On a Zoot Suit
The zoot suit was an icon of its time, born from the bespoke draped silhouettes of London’s Savile Row in...
Fashion & Otherness
Shameless Trespassing
On Cultural Transits, Immodest Exposure and the Grotesque Body
Orientalism, and the related appellation orientalist, opens up to a wide debate on Western visions of the East, and has...
Fashion’s Footnote
Referring both to bodies and to dress, ‘plus-size’ lends a hefty weight to the hackneyed notion that ‘you are what...
Hybrid Bodies
Is there a space between the construction of fashion and its otherness? Fashion photographer Mario Testino implicitly investigates these questions...