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A pop culture romance

Roland Barthes said that ”Garment is, at any time in history, a balance between regulatory forms, the total of which constantly evolves.” Since fashion is inextricably linked to social structures, societal habits and the sociocultural context of each period of time, fashion’s connotation constantly evolves. As ”fashion disposes just

The good, the bad, and the fascist

Throughout history, different fashion houses tried to establish recognition and dominance both in the fashion world and to the masses by promoting items, fabrics, and certain styles, that were thought to characterize and describe best the aesthetics and history of each house. They draw inspiration from the effect caused

Gods as stylists (Part 1)

Clothing and the expression of oneself through fashion opens a conversation with the world, by being an effective means of nonverbal communication. Certainly, we are tacitly obliged by predefined rules, customs, conventions, and rituals that delimit that hypothetical freedom of ours. Those limits are set by our social environment,

When clothes used to talk, they screamed

With my mind set on the ever-relevant issue of feminism and its expression of it, I often try to stir the way I dress to help me express that cause. But it wasn’t always like that. There once was a time when the everyday news wasn’t bombarded by who

Nudity is the garment’s best friend

If there is something utterly unique about each and every one of us, that is our body. The texture and the tone of our skin, the freckles, the birthmarks, the growth of hair on us, the smell emitted through our pores, our bone structure, our bust-waist-hip ratio, our pimples,