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On the Mend: The Future of Fashion Is Sustainable

photo of a slender Black woman with long pink braids and a short-haired curvy Black woman sitting back-to-back in front of a waterfall in a lush, tropical setting wearing garments from the Chromat Spring 2019 Saturated collection
by Adwoa Afful
September 17, 2020 at 9:34am
While “sustainability” might sound like a trendy buzzword, it is actually a movement that brings together people committed to honoring what we love about clothes.
The strawberry dress by Lirika Matoshi is a glittery midi dress with puffy sleeves and strawberries on it.

How a $490 Strawberry Dress Became Queer Culture

by Alaina Leary
September 8, 2020 at 9:57am
“Be my girlfriend: You buy the pink strawberry dress and I’ll buy the black,” could almost be a 2020 pickup line. Read more »
Tyra Banks has red hair with blond highlights. She looks seriously at someone who isn’t in the shot.

We Were Rooting for You: On the Changing Legacy of Tyra Banks

by Rachel Charlene Lewis
May 13, 2020 at 3:34pm
Banks has been around since the ’90s, but it has taken this long to reckon with her true legacy. Read more »
Digital collage of female rappers, luxury brands, gold, with a solar system background

Black Barbie in Bulgari: Revisiting Hip Hop’s Ghetto Fabulous Era

by Brooklyn White
May 11, 2020 at 10:35am
Though ghetto fabulousness doesn’t quite look the same as it did in 1997, its influence lives on.    Read more »
In New Dehli, a worker sews an Everlane label on a leather jacket.

Manipulation By “Transparency”: The Rise and Fall of Everlane

by Jasmine Garnett
April 20, 2020 at 1:48pm
“Ethical fashion” has long been a phrase used to lure customers. Read more »
Black textile designer Jazsalyn McNeil and three generations of her family photographed together on her family's land

Sunday Best: The Beauty and Timelessness of Black Adornment Rituals

by Tanisha C. Ford
April 9, 2020 at 8:28am
Fashion rituals are a set of acts, an unwritten code of survival, that are passed down from generation to generation.  Read more »
Naked Fashion, a book cover that features a collage of people and groups who are working on something related to fashion in fields, in forests, and in warehouses

Popaganda: Glamour beyond Capitalism

by Carmen Rios
March 19, 2020 at 3:25pm
Confronting and rejecting the cultural messages that assign value to our bodies based on wealth and status can be revolutionary acts of reclamation—and help feminists redefine “glamour. Read more »
Anita Vandyke, a thin woman with dark hair, takes a mirror selfie. In the background are plants, and she wears a nice sweater and jeans.

Sustainable Influencers and the Problem with Trendy Environmentalism

by Mary Retta
March 9, 2020 at 2:04pm
Not everyone can afford to go vegan or spend hundreds of dollars on ethically made clothes—and they shouldn’t have to. Read more »
Zaira Gonzalez, a brownskinned Mexican model, poses with the word no written in red lipstick across her cheeks

Popaganda: How to Lipstick It to the Man

by Carmen Rios
February 27, 2020 at 1:06pm
Lipstick Lobby burst onto the scene in 2017 with a unique mission: to manufacture lipsticks that looked good and do good, too. Read more »
a group of students, many of whom are Asian, walk together during a protest, carrying signs that read WhoMadeYourClothes and It's Time for a Revolution

Popaganda: Class War, but Make It Fashion

by Carmen Rios
February 14, 2020 at 11:00am
Fashion is fueling the marginalization, abuse, and exploitation of some of the world’s most vulnerable women. Read more »
Cora Harrington, a thin Black woman, poses in lingerie with her eyes shuttered close

We’re Here, We’re Sheer: Cora Harrington’s Lingerie Revolution

by Eva Recinos
February 14, 2020 at 9:00am
The power of lingerie, and of intimates, is that you can express yourself underneath what you have to wear. Read more »

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