Uniforms

A Stain on an All-American Brand

What lesson are we to take from this evidence of profiteering from human servitude in the foundational years of Brooks...

A Chain Gang in South Carolina, c. 1929 - 1931. Doris Umann. Courtesy of the International Center of Photography.

Prison literature and theory often focuses on the oppressiveness of the system, the callous discipline enforced on the prisoner, the...

Dressmaker Lizzie Morrin made waistcoats and jackets with hidden pockets so guns and weapons could be smuggled unobtrusively. Catherine Byrne...

Photographs by Karen Knorr

I began injecting testosterone at thirty. When I slipped on the jacket in front of the mall mirror at thirty-two,...

Where women are concerned, then, minimalist clothing advice is aimed at tamping down on overabundant desire. Rather than taking your...

I love fashion generally – I've always loved it. On my Sabbath, I read InStyle sometimes. I mean, I read...

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