TagTagEssaysFilterFilterRefine ByResultsResultsEssayEssay: Did Couture Just Get A Face Lift?Hetty Mahlich returns to the age-old question: can couture be relevant in our contemporary, ever-shifting world?Haute CoutureS/S 21 CommentaryEssayThe Artist Gluck: Resistance, Dress & LegacyAmy de la Haye explores the Queer legacy of Gluck via an analysis of the artist's personal possessions and dressed appearance.Amy de la HayeEssaysEssayEssay: Roses As ResistanceAmy de la Haye explores how, when combined, fashion and roses can provoke.Amy de la HayePoliticalEssayEssay: The Spectacle Of ChangeHetty Mahlich explores what remains in the absence of the fashion show.S/S 21 CommentaryS/S 21EssayEssay: Queer Performance is a ProtestStudio Screenings: Gareth Pugh - Gina Tonic on why queer performance on film is a political act.CinemaQueer CultureEssayEssay: I, For One, Welcome Our New Tech OverlordsBella Gladman explores Frederik Heyman's imagined tech futures, in the time of COVID-19.Post-humanTechnologyNewsAll In Bad Taste: Why Does Miuccia Prada’s ‘Ugly’ Still Bite?Each season, Miuccia Prada’s 'ugly' clothes take charge of what we constitute to be in good or bad taste, forcing us to challenge our own prejudices.NewsJeremy Scott: The Marie Antoinette of Fashion?As Jeremy Scott presented 18th century frivolity for Moschino's A/W 20 womenswear show, was it ignorance in bliss or wry social commentary?EssayEssay: The Seduction Of SubcultureExploring the rose-tinted nostalgia surrounding British subculture, following a reference filled A/W 20 menswear season.SubcultureMenswearEssayEssay: Baroque to the FutureThe surprisingly political influence of the baroque period in Autumn/Winter 2020 menswear.MenswearA/W 20EssayEssay: Walk This WayFrom Marc Jacobs to Maison Margiela, Bella Gladman examines what S/S 20 model walks mean for fashion optimism.S/S 20EssaysEssayEssay: 'Oh, and there were clothes.'New York S/S 20: Katharine K. Zarrella comments on this season's need for spectacle.New York CollectionsS/S 20 CommentaryEssayEssay: Models of PerfectionThe Fashion Body: Lauren David Peden on the pervasive power of models.SupermodelsBody ImageEssayEssay: The Physical Body, The Mind and SpiritThe Fashion Body: Dean Mayo Davies on Riccardo Tisci's gender pioneering designs.Riccardo TisciEssaysEssayEssay: The Photo of a GirlTessa: Carrie Scott on notions of sexuality and agency in the work of Tessa Kuragi.FeminismEroticEssayEssay: Nick Knight on Plato's AtlantisNick Knight shared his memories of the show that changed the future of fashion with Emma Hope Allwood.Nick Knight InterviewsAlexander McQueenEssayEssay: Posthumanism in FashionQueer: Georgina Evans on the queering of humanness in contemporary fashion.Post-humanQueer ProjectEssayEssay: Cottweiler's Subtle QueeringQueer: Joe Bobowicz on fashion's subtle take on queer, as pioneered by the likes of London-based design duo Cottweiler.Queer CultureCOTTWEILEREssayEssay: Kawakubo's CampQueer: Lara Johnson-Wheeler on Comme des Garçons A/W 18 and Susan Sontag's 1964 definition of Camp.Comme des GarçonsQueer ProjectEssayEssay: Design and Disruption of the Human BodyQueer: Jake Hall on how fashion has questioned the norm of the human form.Queer CultureSilhouetteEssayEssay: Pink CapitalismQueer: Liam Hess on the dichotomy of authenticity and visibility in relation to queer representation in fashionQueer ProjectPoliticalEssayEssay: Queering CoutureQueer: Jake Hall on his study of how contemporary fashion queers couture.Queer ProjectQueer CultureEssayEssay: Vive Les Femmes!What does it mean to be a woman in 2018? Georgina Evans explores the cultural commentary found throughout the Paris A/W 18 Womenswear shows.Paris CollectionsLouis VuittonEssayEssay: Size MattersLara Johnson-Wheeler analyses the London A/W 18 Womenswear shows asking: Do designers want to talk about shape?Essie BuckmanCritical AnalysisPaginationPaginationPage 1 of 1012345Back to top