fashion

Beauty Marked: “Made-Up” Explores the Addictive Power of Artifice

Photograph of the book cover for Made Up by Daphné B., featuring the silhouette of a femme body in pink
by Sophia Stewart
October 20, 2021 at 8:40am
“Sometimes, to feel at peace, all you need is for someone to tell you what to buy,” writes author Daphné B.
an illustration of a Black woman in pink sitting on the floor with jellies in her hand

Ready For Those Jellies: The Shoe That Became Both Cheap Luxury and Status Symbol

by Brooklyn White
July 26, 2021 at 12:10pm
It’s disheartening to watch the young folks who popularize apparel being excluded from the very trends they helped start. Read more »
Amina Mucciolo, a Black person with colorful hair pulled into a bun, poses on a street corner with their hand over their mouth

Super Saturated: Amina Mucciolo Sits Atop the Rainbow Curve

by Mary Retta
July 1, 2021 at 9:00am
Amina Mucciolo is many things—a YouTuber, an Instagrammer, a designer, an artist—but through it all, she has remained true to herself.  Read more »
Rose Byrne plays Sheila Rubin, a white woman with curly brown hair, who is sitting down in an aerobics studio and smiling at people exercising

Tarnished Wings: Victoria’s Secret Can’t Hide Its Toxic Legacy

by Beatriz Valero de Urquia
June 28, 2021 at 11:34am
Victoria’s Secret’s brand was built upon the hypersexualization of women’s bodies and the glorification of eating disorders. Read more »
Alice Diamond, Lillian Rose Kendall, and Florrie Holmes, three white women wearing fur hats and pin curls, were members of the Forty Elephants Gang in 1916

Criminal Accessories: The Ruthless Style of London’s Forty Elephants Gang

by Ann Foster
April 22, 2021 at 9:00am
The Forty Elephants remain one of the most successful and longest-lasting criminal organizations in English history. Read more »
Lena Dunham, a white woman with shoulder-length brown hair, poses in a navy blue blazer against a cream-colored wall

Luxury Fashion Won’t End Fatphobia

by Andréa Becker
April 8, 2021 at 1:29pm
Plus-size lines are a double-edged sword—simultaneously granting access to those long forgotten in the fashion world while perpetuating the notion of fat as “other.” Read more »
collage cutout of a woman’s shape in braids and a straw hat holding orange flowers, while an image of a Black woman is peeking from inside of the cutout

White and Whimsical: The Reformation of Fashion’s History

by Nandi Howard
December 21, 2020 at 10:59am
Many of us have accepted that whiteness and cultural appropriation have long dominated fashion, but these issues have tangible roots that deserve interrogation. Read more »
A Black woman with long curly hair wears a light blue long sleeved dress and stands in a field.

Cultivating Freedom: This Year, Cottagecore Exploded—But Excluded Black Women

by Yannise Jean
December 21, 2020 at 10:33am
Cottagecore is about freedom rather than loneliness. Read more »
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

On the Mend: The Future of Fashion Is Sustainable

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. Read more »
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 »

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