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Haute Culture or Eye-Pleaser. Essay by Maria Ben Saad
On fashion collections from the designer’s perspective in a time of transformation. What is our relationship towards collections in a time when the whole fashion system seems to be in transition, challenged by new marketing channels and a more consumer-oriented approach? Designers have started to question their conditions within a system where they are expected to produce an increasing number of collections each year. By Maria Ben Saad. Photography by Justin Aranha and and styling by Nariman J.
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Fashion Story: A Caramel Kind Of Thing
Photography and fashion by Aaron Michael.
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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
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FASHION STORY: DAMNED IF YOU DO
Photography by Lars Bronseth and fashion by Josefine Skomars. Click for details.
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Fashion Story: Pale Blue
Photography by Yuji Inagaki and styling by Tatsuki Itakura Hebania. Click for details.
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Fashion Story: Non Pardon
Photography by Alex Weber and fashion by Arijana Cassel.
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Fashion Story: Azah
Photography by Chad and Tashena.
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Fashion Story: Before And After
Photography by Hideyuki Hayashi and fashion by Keanoush Da Rosa.
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Fashion Story: Saara
Photography and fashion by Amanda Shadforth.
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Fashion Story: Saturday Escape
Photography by Joseph Paradiso and Yuki.