Fiction The Stain or La Dame qui s’est Trompée d’Époque On the Disfiguring Marks of History February 23, 2021 By Claire Wilcox With Illustration by Johan Björkegren It’s February 18 1960. Jean Cocteau has just released his film The Testament Of Orpheus. Mme Francine Weisweiller is in... [READ MORE]
Opinion Optical Tactility On Touching, and Fashion For When We Can't June 3, 2020 By Riana Patel 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... [READ MORE]
Interview Dressing For Magic On the Transformative Quality of Ritual Dress September 27, 2017 By Simon Costin Photographs by Henry Bourne Conversations on the Transformative Quality of Ritual Dress 'Within the context of a public event, clothes help to endow the... [READ MORE]
Interview A Conversation with Kenneth Anger On the evil forces of cinema August 24, 2016 By Aaron Rose Few directors have been as prolific in their lifetime as Kenneth Anger. Blending surrealism and the occult with homoeroticism, psychodrama... [READ MORE]
Prose Notes on Fashion as Fetish On the Magical Investment in the Power of Garments November 24, 2015 By Elizabeth Wilson Photographs by Estelle Hanania Designers and artists have occasionally hinted at the mystery of clothes, at what it is that makes a garment powerful,... [READ MORE]
Fiction The Heart is a Lonely Hunter Excerpt from Carson McCullers' debut novel December 5, 2014 By Vestoj Editors Images by David Armstrong The dress she would wear was laying out on the bed. Hazel and Etta had both been good about lending... [READ MORE]