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Showing posts with label politics of style. Show all posts
22 May 2018

On the Erotics and Etiquette of Wearing Gloves

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Jean Patchett by Erwin Blumenfeld  Variant of US Vogue cover (May 1949) I. I'm just old enough to remember...
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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4 Dec 2017

Lipstick Traces: Lessons for Lucia

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Lucia Pica photographed by Daniel Jackson  Vogue (Sept 2015) Like many people, when I heard a couple of years ago that Italian-b...
20 Oct 2017

On Mini-Skirts and Morality in Africa

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A young woman modelling a mini-skirt  with an African print: what's not to love?  laviye.com Someone wrote to ask why it is I ...
11 Oct 2017

On Black Dandyism (With Reference to the Case of Jean-Michel Basquiat)

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Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960 - 1988)  The New York Times Magazine  (10 Feb 1985) "Being a black man", says Ekow...
27 Dec 2014

On the Malign/ed Art of Faking It (Part III) - A Guest Post by Thomas Tritchler

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Cover of the 2010 Penguin edition of  Wilde's 1891 essay 'The Decay of Lying' The Romantics understood that all poe...
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