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Witches Automata

Riding in the night hours, having sex in the stillness of the dead of night, seduced by illusions of the devil are ways of conduct that describe a witch throughout the centuries. This misogynistic rhetoric nourished by the church suggested that women’s lack of intelligence – an absurd reasoning

Too many rituals for the too-littles

Disability is not just a health problem. It is a complex phenomenon, reflecting the interaction between the features of a person’s body and the features of the society in which he or she lives (Word Health Organization). The social body, initially detached from the biological body, renegades the human manifestation

Mirrors and glass

In the whirlwind state of writing, I rarely find myself clear-headed. Creatively distressed, I am agitating for transforming my thoughts into words that can be understood, accepting both the pure creativity of manipulating conventions through writing, as well as the finite nature of being stripped of their uniqueness when

Timeless timing

Fashion and the notion of time coexist in a parallel and complementary manner, although constantly contradict each other. Fashion’s eternity depends on heterochronous fragments, rowdy veering towards each other, toiling to characterize in their domination a specific time frame reference fathomable enough for the mortals to grasp. However, fashion,

This character is multi-dimensional

Way too often I am torn apart by the brutality of compartmentalization, categorization, and labeling that derive from society’s inability to accept what is not understood as well as its desperate need for order. Agonizingly navigating through a capitalistic everyday mayhem, we tend to find ways to exist, according

Aesthetic Disobedience

Η Rosalind Coward ξεκαθάρισε το εξής: το ένα πράγμα που κατηγορηματικά δεν είναι η μόδα, είναι η έκφραση της ατομικότητας. Η μόδα είναι ένας φανταχτερός, παραπλανητικός εξαναγκασμός που ανθεί στα λημέρια της μάζας, στα πόδια του οποίου σέρνονται αγκομαχούσες σκιές, εξωμότες της ατομικής θεώρησης του θαύματος της τελειότητας. Το

I am (not), I do

Dress provides the gift of presenting our body and/or self at will. Within fashion history, designers use techniques and fabrics to enhance body morphologies, manipulate shapes, or create new ones. The body, after all, can be placed in the center of the definition of art, as well as at

Exhaling Nature

There is a lot we can learn from nature because there is uniformity in the core of it – as well as within human existence. All lions look the same, but different from the other cats; all sunbirds look the same but different from the other birds; all roses

Shifting Silhouettes

Throughout the centuries, either during the Renaissance or the 21st century, many designers mass-design based on common axes. They utilize certain fabrics, cuts, techniques, and styles that, as they form a norm, constitute the trend of each era. The study of the aforementioned axes is interesting because they partially

A beautiful fraud

Clothing has a major impact on the way we perceive reality. But it plays an equally crucial role in the way we perceive things that, in spite of what Jean Luc Godart said (‘Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world’), are only partially unreal; such as movies.