Symbolic Power of Dress

A Conversation with Kenneth Anger

Few directors have been as prolific in their lifetime as Kenneth Anger. Blending surrealism and the occult with homoeroticism, psychodrama...

Illustrations by Frida Wannerberger

I made my song a coat Covered with embroideries Out of old mythologies From heel to throat;

Filmed between 1966 and 1980 by the self-proclaimed Magus of cinema, Kenneth Anger, Lucifer Rising is Anger's portrait of the...

The power of fashion as a purveyor of possible selves has long been documented and discussed in fashion literature from...