fashion

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

Tyra Banks has red hair with blond highlights. She looks seriously at someone who isn’t in the shot.
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.
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 »
Graphic 1960s inspired illustration of Donyale Luna wearing a striped orange dress surrounded by colorful circles

When Richard Met Donyale: The Duo That Challenged High Fashion’s White Lens

by Elspeth H. Brown
February 11, 2020 at 11:00am
When Donyale Luna and Richard Avedon began their collaboration, glamour was still a race-evasive code for whiteness. Read more »
Felicia Wade wearing a 1970s plaid pantsuit in front of a vintage geometric background

Retrofitted: The Community Preserving Vintage Style, Not Vintage Values

by Meghan Racklin
February 11, 2020 at 10:00am
For many members of the vintage community, living in the actual past would mean living in a time of increased oppression. Read more »

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