fashion

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

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
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.
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 »
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 »

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