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  • 5 August 2019

    Fashion Story: Making The Nature Scene

    Photography by Nika Baeva, fashion by Fatya and Alina Gobeti.

  • 11 January 2019

    Fashion Story: Now I Will Start Making Excuses

    Photography by Ieva Lasmane and fashion by Betty Hiuman.

  • 6 October 2016

    Fashion Story: Making Of A Scene

    Photography by Simon Baungård and fashion by Julie Garde.

  • 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

  • 16 October 2012
    Making a Difference. Ann-Sofie Back and the Fashion System

    Making a Difference. Ann-Sofie Back and the Fashion System

    My first encounter with Ann-Sofie took place at Beckmans College of Design in the mid-nineties. She was a student in fashion design and I was a guest teacher, doing a course in fashion communication. Since the course was quite short, about a week, I didn’t get any real insight into what Ann-Sofie was about, but what struck me was her extremely personal and intellectual approach to fashion, something unusual in Swedish fashion education at the time. By Maria Ben Saad

  • 10 December 2017

    Photography by Karl and Kristof, fashion by Carolina Orrico

    From our latest issue. Photography by Karl and Kristof, fashion by Carolina Orrico.

  • 8 December 2022

    About

    About Contributor:  Exploring fashion through art and photography since 2008, Contributor invites the viewer into a three-dimensional world of inspiration and creativity. In bringing together some of the most interesting artists today, we highlight experimental approaches to photography. At its best, fashion imagery can be an agent for change and we want to arouse a […]

  • 26 November 2022
    Fashion Story: The Map

    Fashion Story: The Map

    Photography by Beatrice Salomone and fashion by Federica Bettelli.

  • 7 November 2022
    Peter Do – Policy Of Truth

    Peter Do – Policy Of Truth

    Do’s exquisite tailoring, which sometimes exposes its inner working, is elegant and genderless. Intricate and contemporary, his pieces create a strong silhouette, which feels urban but chic at the same time. In this exclusive interview, he talks about dealing with the pressures of running a small business, the odd sensation of becoming famous, and why he likes to be completely involved. Interview by Philippe Pourhashemi.

  • 6 November 2022
    Back To Dirt. An Aléa Interview

    Back To Dirt. An Aléa Interview

    A variety of brands and companies are marketing their approach to sustainable practices and the meaning of the term ‘sustainability’ has become blurred and inconsistent. The researcher and designers Miriam Josi and Stella Lee Prowse are proposing an alternative discourse and practice to this tendency. Here they explain their work for their studio Aléa and suggest how research practices and experimentation in material production can be a response to the current fashionability of discourses about sustainability. Interview by Marco Pecorari.

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