Take your pick from the latest crop of fashion magazines: Open an issue of your choice and flick through its pages. Chances are you will see what I see — white girls everywhere. On the covers, on the catwalks, in the shoots, in the ads — the color of fashion is indeed blindingly, utterly white. Try to understand why and you will most… Read More >
Each September and February, four fashion capitals of the world come to brim with excitement, for it is the seasonal parades known as Fashion Weeks. Loud, colorful, creative and manic, the mesmerising energies of the live shows are a sight to behold. Read More—
The debate about whether fashion is art is, indeed, a well-trodden one. The links between the two forms of culture go back at least to the Renaissance: Master painters like Jacopo Bellini, Antonio Pisanello and Antonio del Pollaiuolo not only depicted the fashions of their day in their work, but also dreamed up new designs and created textile and embroidery patterns that were later copied onto actual garments in a curious case of life imitating art—
It is an accepted fact that the majority of images we consume are created by men. Too often feminism is an easy target for commodification in the wider context of contemporary culture and the exhibition examines this ‘self-other’ relationship through the selection of female artists —scrutinising their unique relationships to sex and the—
