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26 Aug 2025

On Three More Punk Graces: Siouxsie Sioux, Poly Styrene, and Helen of Troy

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The Three Punk Graces II: Poly, Siouxsie & Helen of Troy (SA/2025)       I.    The Greeks famously have had their Charites , but punk my...
25 Aug 2025

On the Three Punk Graces: Vivienne, Jordan, and Soo Catwoman

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The Three Punk Graces: Soo, Jordan & Vivienne   (SA/2025)     I.   The ancient Greeks may have famously had their  Charites , but punk m...
22 Aug 2025

On This Day ...

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Sex Pistols: Johnny Rotten, Glen Matlock, Steve Jones, and Paul Cook Photo by John Gray (1975)     I.    I know that English historians who ...
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21 Aug 2025

In Praise of Hobble Skirts and Bondage Suits

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Jordan and Vivienne having a fag break outside Seditionaries in 1977  wearing bondage suits as a fashionable young Edwardian  in a hobble sk...
20 Aug 2025

On the Politics of the Skirt and the Rise and Fall of Hemlines

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Six young women model six classic skirt lengths  ranging from micro-mini to maxi     I.    One of the things that Roland Barthes doesn't...
18 Aug 2025

Are We the Gods of Our Own Image? Notes on the Virtual Beauty Exhibition (Somerset House 2025) Part 2 (Sections V-VIII)

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  Qualeasha Wood: It's All For U (If U Rlly Want It) (2024) [a] Arvida Byström:  A Daughter Without a Mother  (2022) [b]    Photos take...

Are We the Gods of Our Own Image? Notes on the Virtual Beauty Exhibition (Somerset House 2025): Part 1 (Sections I-IV)

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    Top: Ines Alpha:  I'd rather be a cyborg  (2024)  Bottom: M.C. Abbott,  María Buey González, and Carl Olsson:  Peak Face  (2021)    ...