fashion theory – Fashion Matters II

Stop the war in Ukraine – fashion for the greater good.

Sometimes it seems that fashion is insignificant when we consider such horrible life events like the war happening right now in Ukraine. I’m a firm believer that clothing and the fashion industry can influence the world for good, even in times of war. from digital fashion to the power of clothing symbolism, we are seeing …

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Identity: Look modern. Forget fashion and all its baggage.

I’ve been thinking a lot about identity lately. Reading books like Transorientalism in Art, Fashion, and Film: Inventions of Identity by Adam Geczy, and Philosophical Perspectives on Fashion edited by Giovanni Matteucci and Stefano Marino has been supplemented by a workshop with George Aye at the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Art at Washington …

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