BETWEEN THE SELF AND THE WORLD
The sari challenges Western notions of innovation, for the diverse range of possibilities for draping a seemingly simple, standard swath...
Roland Barthes
Band of Insiders
If fashion ‘wants to kill’ its practitioners, that’s because it epitomises capitalist innovation at its bare essence, consisting of the...
Fashion & Fragrance: From Fabric to Fragrance
Exploring Parallel Between the Sartorial and Olfactorial Realms
The main similarity between fashion and fragrance seems simple enough: we wear both on our bodies. However, there are more...
Fashion & Memory
Unravelling twentieth-century fashion's relationship with memory and perpetual pursuit of the new
Fashion and photography share certain characteristics. Each claims the status of art, yet remains at its margins. The claims of...
Imagining Fashion
In Conversation with Adele Varcoe on the Performative Potential of Fashion
Performance is something integral to fashion, in industry, and our everyday experience: from catwalk presentations, photo shoots and red carpet...
Text Appeal
In October 2012, Prada announced the winners of its Prada Journal contest, an initiative, in partnership with Italian publishers Giangiacomo...
Linguistic Determinism
The clothing industry has recently seen the introduction of new garments which fall outside of existing definitions. These innovations bring...
Fashion Grammar
Given its infancy in the world of academia, fashion studies still shows signs of a discipline in the making, measuring...