Lockdown

Whose Streets?

Versus in SoHo, New York City, June 2020. Photograph by Alexis Romano.

Shop window displays serve to crystallise, animate and narrate various meanings of fashion. They provide information on sartorial items, and...

Maria Lassnig, A Pair of Gloves (for Parkett no. 85) 2006-09. Courtesy MoMA.

It could be easy to dismiss digital clothing as a poor replication of physical clothing or, more strongly, as part...

Jindřich Štyrský Untitled, from On the Needles of These Days (Na jehlách těchto dní ) (1945) 1934–35

When lockdown was announced, the luxury stores seized their shoes, bags and belts. The high street left theirs in full...