Alice ’71 in Wonderland
Two years after the Paris 1968 student riots, Parisian couturier Jacques Esterel launched a timely couture collection for men and...
Unisex
Keywords in Dress: Unisex
The term ‘unisex’, rather fittingly, was coined in the Sixties. Prefixing ‘sex’ with ‘uni–‘ (meaning ‘one’) in the context of...
Keywords in Dress: Denim
Jeans are one of the most powerful clothing icons of the twentieth-century. Famously named after the French town of Nîmes...
Beyond the Bared Breast
Austrian-American designer Rudi Gernreich is best known for his topless bathing suit, or the ‘monokini’ as it was dubbed, embodied...