The Instagrammable Shopping Centre
As the service industry has taken over goods, the parameters of conspicuous consumption have also shifted. The ‘lifestyle experience’ is...
Walter Benjamin
A Copy of a Copy
Ms. Fen, a wholesaler, has glossy black hair and nails. She is twenty-eight years old. When we meet, she pulls...
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...
Repeated Gestures
The street photographer, as opposed to a studio image-maker, engages with a working process that observes and captures events and...
The Only Way is Up!
Fashion and architecture are both telling symbols of the personal, social and cultural identity of an age, reflecting as they...