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Showing posts with label fashion. Show all posts
23 Feb 2026

Retromania: Reviewed and Reassessed - Part 5: Tomorrow (Chapters 11 and 12)

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Simon Reynolds: Retromania Cover of the German edition (Ventil Verlag, 2012) I. In chapter 11, Reynolds - a former sci-fi fanatic - indulg...
12 Feb 2026

Granny Takes a Trip with Gorman & Bracewell

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Poster for the Granny Takes a Trip  book event at Foyles (11 Feb 2026)  Photo of Paul Gorman live on stage taken by Melpomeni      I. In Ant...
14 Nov 2025

On the Question of Whether to Tuck or Not to Tuck

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Larry David confronts a tucked in videographer (played by Mike Castle)  about his sweater wearing tendencies in a season 11 episode of  Curb...
30 Mar 2025

On Jasmine Howard's Granny, My Mother, and the Likely Lasses

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Two girls in Newcastle (1970) Photo by Laszlo Torday    I.    The other day, on a sunny afternoon, as Ray Davies would say, I attended a mee...
31 Dec 2024

Philosophy on the Catwalk: In Praise of an Exterminating Angel Dressed in Lambskin

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Model wearing an Emilio Parka and Ezio Trousers by Loro Piana loropiana.com [1]   It takes a lot of courage to sail gaily, in super-soft sh...
30 Dec 2022

Reflections on the Death of a Footballer

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Dominic Snow: Saint Pelé (2007) Oil on canvas (51 x 77 cm) saatchiart.com     Have you heard the news?    The great Brazilian footballer Pe...
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15 Sept 2021

Radical Chic: On Puncturing the Fourth Wall of Excess and Spectacle with AOC

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in her  Tax the Rich dress (Met Gala 2021)       One of the results of the conjunction between politics and fashi...
9 Feb 2021

D. H. Lawrence: The Reluctant Fashion Beast

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  D. H. Lawrence in 1915 modelling his Edwardian  hipster look complete with velveteen jacket   National Portrait Gallery, London  ( NPG x14...
23 Apr 2020

City of the Dead

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When did fashion stop being dangerous and youth culture cease being sexy, stylish and subversive? That is to say, when was the last t...