Docile Bodies
Prison Uniforms and the Dress of Subservience
Prison literature and theory often focuses on the oppressiveness of the system, the callous discipline enforced on the prisoner, the...
Uniforms
The Grey Agenda
Bolton and Browne are two of the most influential men in fashion today. Both of them are gay and both...
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 Mixture Of Guns And Chiffon
Dressmaker Lizzie Morrin made waistcoats and jackets with hidden pockets so guns and weapons could be smuggled unobtrusively. Catherine Byrne...
The Suit
I began injecting testosterone at thirty. When I slipped on the jacket in front of the mall mirror at thirty-two,...
Capsule Contradictions
Where women are concerned, then, minimalist clothing advice is aimed at tamping down on overabundant desire. Rather than taking your...
IS THIS APPROPRIATE?
I love fashion generally – I've always loved it. On my Sabbath, I read InStyle sometimes. I mean, I read...
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...