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Fashion
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Black Dandyism, the 2025 Met Gala’s Theme, Has Its Roots in 18th-Century Painting
Read more: Black Dandyism, the 2025 Met Gala’s Theme, Has Its Roots in 18th-Century PaintingA young Black boy, wearing deep red livery with gold trimming, a gold earring, and red-and-white turban secured with a jeweled brooch, stares out at the viewer. Standing before a ship at sea, he hands a letter, addressed to “Monsieur…
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Zero Waste Day Shines a light on fashion and textiles
Read more: Zero Waste Day Shines a light on fashion and textilesHundreds of thousands of people worldwide marked the International Day of Zero Waste, which spotlighted solutions to the mounting environmental and social problems caused by the fashion and textile sector. More than 240 events were held across the globe, from…
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Fashion in Action
Read more: Fashion in ActionOn the opening day of the Spring/Summer 2011’s season of Mercedes Benz’s New York Fashion Week, former fashion editor, speaker, and fashion activist Michaela Angela Davis led a protest of approximately 20 black women, dressed in black suits, carrying signs…
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Five Times Climate Change and The Environment Inspired Fashion Design
Read more: Five Times Climate Change and The Environment Inspired Fashion DesignThe upcoming year of fashion shows look set to be charged with climate change and environmental themes. This year, more than ever before, we have seen that the business of fashion, at the highest levels, is responding to the push…
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Gucci model stages mental health protest at Milan fashion week
Read more: Gucci model stages mental health protest at Milan fashion weekIf fashion is a reflection of the times it is little wonder that the current round of shows have often felt discombobulating. Gucci’s show on Sunday night was particularly surreal, opening with a series of models being propelled along a…
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Fanged Wilds and Women
Read more: Fanged Wilds and WomengrrrRoar! Ecology is sexier when you focus on women and fanged beasts. Fashions in leopard print help us make that connection globally and online. Polluters at least pause at the reminder that nature isn’t dead yet and in fact stirs…
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Not Photoshopped
Read more: Not PhotoshoppedFrom StyleCaster: The debate over body image seems like an uphill battle in the fashion industry. The industry seems as if it’s trying to change things by creating guidelines and rules for models and fashion shows, but it doesn’t look…
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Illuminating Rana Plaza: NYFW Protest and Projection
Read more: Illuminating Rana Plaza: NYFW Protest and ProjectionTo protest unethical labor practices in Bangladesh, specifically unsafe working conditions, 99 Pickets, The Illuminator, and Ismail Ferdous took action during New York Fashion Week. 99 Pickets members protested, drawing attention to the question, “How are my clothes really made?”…
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PINK Loves Consent
Read more: PINK Loves ConsentThe satirical website was launched at noon on Monday, December 3. According to the site, “PINK loves CONSENT is our newest collection of flirty, sexy and powerful statements that remind people to practice CONSENT. CONSENT is a verbal agreement about…
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Attractive & Fat
Read more: Attractive & FatJes Baker is cutting retailer Abercrombie & Fitch down to size. Baker, who blogs under the name “The Militant Baker” and wears a size 22, changed the brand’s A&F logo to “Attractive & Fat” in a mock, black-and-white Abercrombie ad…