Remember DofE? Those practical, waterproof, sturdy boots teamed with rustling, generic, boring, hiking clothes? A fashion sin! For years, outdoor apparel happily paralleled the world of high fashion. Different audiences, different aesthetics and different intentions ensured that the two worlds underwent little collision. The North Face x Gucci’s latest collaboration changes all that, for it…
Sex sells? The return of Playgirl, the rise of Fenty, and fashion’s new gaze
‘Sex appeal’ has long been disgracefully two dimensional and exclusive: cis-gendered, slim and pre-dominantly white. The fashion industry’s concept of beauty (and consequentially their selling of sex), as derived from this appeal, is incredibly problematic. Today, however, we are travelling towards a more inclusive vision, a concept of beauty and sex appeal free from binaries…
Does fashion negatively impact our mental health?
Josephine Nyeko-Lacek As young people, fashion and the fashion industry touch almost every part of our lives whether deliberately or not. The media we consume on our computers and phones, the way we present ourselves to represent different aspects of our personality, even if we do not actively choose to participate in this world it…
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