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Showing posts with label fashion. Show all posts
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...
23 Feb 2020

Forever Dead and Lovely: Notes on Melanie Pullen's High Fashion Crime Scenes

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Melanie Pullen: Untitled (ELLE) , 2014  From the series High Fashion Crime Scenes (2003-17) melaniepullen.com If, like me...
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22 Feb 2020

Forever Dead and Lovely: Notes on Izima Kaoru's Landscapes with a Corpse

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Izima Kaoru: Kimura Yoshino wears Alexander McQueen #484 (2007) Part of the Landscapes with a Corpse series Galerie Andreas Bin...
1 Jan 2020

Clothes Maketh the Woman (With Reference to the Queer Case of Nellie March)

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Anne Heywood as Ellen (Nellie) March in The Fox (dir. Mark Rydell, 1967) Image from Twenty Four Frames: Notes on Film by John Greco...
15 Aug 2019

In Praise of the Plastic Mac

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Joan Bennett and Pamela Green illustrate the sexy,  stylish character of the see-through plastic mac As everybody knows, the first...
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7 Apr 2019

On Poetry, Fashion and Punk

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Sonia Delaunay and Tristan Tzara Robe poème , Le ventillateur tourne ... (1922) Photo: R. Riss / The Delaunay Estate (Paris) ...
2 Feb 2019

Rocking the Lobster Look with Elsa Schiaparelli, Salvador Dalí and Cosmo Kramer

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Lobster evening dress by Elsa Schiaparelli in collaboration with Salvador  Dalí Michael Richards as Cosmo Kramer in Seinfeld  wearing ...
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6 Oct 2018

The Blue Boy Will Never Die: On Fear, Fashion and Immortality

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Gainsborough: The Blue Boy (c.1770) According to D. H. Lawrence, the northern consciousness is gripped by a fear - almost a horror...
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12 May 2018

Mr. Erbil: Revolt into Style

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Members of Mr. Erbil Gentleman's Club Photo by Hugo Passarello Luna I. Some stories are just too perfect to be true: a...
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25 Jul 2017

In Praise of the Stiletto Heel

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The Dioressence stiletto Photo: Marton Perlaki for Dior According to Camille Paglia, the stiletto heel is "modern woman...
12 Apr 2017

In Praise of the Ballet Boot (and Other Kinky Forms of Footwear)

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  Leather lace-up knee-length ballet boots  The so-called ballet boot is a style of footwear given us by the pornographic imaginat...