The Self on Display
The title 'Shocking Life' alone suggests multiple readings. ‘Shocking’ refers to her life, one of excitement, privilege and excess; it...
Surrealism
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...
Sartorial Meditations: In All Seriousness
How we understand fashion is a collection of infinite possibilities, projected images and representations. At once enigmatic, desirable, glamorous, festive,...
Myth-Making in the Fashion Magazine
Released in 1874, the same year of its demise, Mallarmé’s La Dernière Mode, is a magazine/art project/journal on fashion that...