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  • 5 November 2022
    Dematerialising Fashion: Is Screen Wear the New Streetwear?

    Dematerialising Fashion: Is Screen Wear the New Streetwear?

    As the events of 2020 and 2021 forced the closure of physical spaces and compelled many of us to stay at home, the Metaverse emerged as a place we could still dress up for and go to. Fashionistas sought solace on virtual domains, and the Metaverse quickly found a new following in the world of fashion. And when real-life fashion events got cancelled during the lockdowns, virtual influencers and Metaverse stakeholders opened online boutiques, staged virtual catwalk shows and invited avatars to digital hang-outs. Words by Bradley Quinn.

  • 15 October 2019

    Fashion Story: Gloria

    Photography by Jeppy Mortellaro and fashion by Debora Giugno.

  • 11 August 2018

    Fashion Story: Plastic

    Photography by Ria Mort and fashion by Dimitrios Constantine Makris.

  • 26 May 2019

    Fashion Story: Soaked

    Photography by Angelina Bergenwall and fashion by Adam Pettersson.

  • 3 November 2018

    Fashion Space. Essay by Bradley Quinn

    The spectacle of fashion masses in and around our clothing, constituting a unique space in itself. Fashion space can be found in urban cityscapes and built environments, but also on digital platforms and in virtual worlds. As the spaces of fashion extend beyond their physical confines, they take shape at precisely the point where traditional definitions of public space – as urban sites, democratic arenas and open-access areas – break down. By Bradley Quinn

  • 18 June 2017

    A Box of Reflections

    Inside Contributor’s Box of Reflections, you’ll find a collection of eighty prints in three different sizes and one poster. Also available is a limited edition of twenty copies of the box, each including one signed and numbered print from our two cover stories. Signed by the photographer Magnus Magnusson, the C-prints come in the size 30 x 20 cm. Contributor’s Box of Reflections is a true collector’s item. If you’re interested in the limited edition of twenty copies, please e-mail us as info@contributormagazine.com.

  • 8 June 2017

    The New Issue of Contributor Is a Box of Reflections

    The New Issue of Contributor Is a Box of Reflections. Inside Contributor’s Box of Reflections, you’ll find a collection of eighty prints in three different sizes and one poster. Also available is a limited edition of twenty copies of the box, each including one signed and numbered print from our two cover stories. Signed by the photographer Magnus Magnusson, the C-prints come in the size 30 x 20 cm. Contributor’s Box of Reflections is a true collector’s item. If you’re interested in the limited edition of twenty copies, please e-mail us as info@contributormagazine.com.

  • 5 August 2015

    Decoding Alan’s Apple

    When British codebreaking hero Alan Turing died just before his 42nd birthday, a partly eaten apple, seemingly laced with cyanide was found by his deathbed. Professor S. Barry Cooper (co-author of Alan Turing: His Work and Impact) explores his life, death and its meaning.

  • 19 June 2015

    Signs Of Time. Essay on making Peace with Death in Fashion

    Throughout history, fashion has been criticized for being superficial and out of touch with reality. As sociologist Yuniya Kawamura writes in her book Fashion-ology from 2005, fashion has been attacked by both scholars and feminists and didn’t become a legitimate research topic until recently (basically in the eighties, when fashion studies was established as an academic field). She quotes Sandra Niessen and Anne Brydon, who describe different historical attitudes towards fashion: “Social analyses uniformly condemned fashion. Feminists critiqued the sexual politics and gender oppression inhering in clothing which hobble and confine women. Marxists critiqued the fetishism of fashion and the ideology of conspicuous consumption. Psychologists treated fashion adherence as pathology.” By Maria Ben Saad

  • 25 May 2013

    Heads and Headlessness. Essay by Stefanie Hessler

    The head is a particularly popular body part amongst artists, art historians and spectators alike. Antique busts are often the only segments remaining of Greek and Egyptian sculptures, and promise a certain transcendence to past worlds. Just like death masks, they radiate an aura of proximity to their models, who continue to live through the mould. Let me take you on a brief and arbitrary journey around curiosities of the head and headlessness in art history and today. By Stefanie Hessler

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