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Chanel No. 5 100 years on, an iconic fragrance born from an orphanage

When Marilyn Monroe was asked, “What do you wear to bed?”, she famously replied, “Just a few drops of No.

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From tech to fetish, shoes in fairy tales are a mark of status

Fairy tales have always had amazing, wearable tech: from the red shoes and the glass slipper to puss’s boots. Disney’s

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How women in India reclaimed the protest power of ripped jeans

A recently-elected Indian chief minister associated with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government sparked a swift and impassioned social media

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The politics of the necktie — ‘colonial noose’, masculine marker or silk status symbol?

Neckties made global news last week when Maori MP, Rawiri Waititi, was ejected from the debating chamber of New Zealand

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Following a t-shirt from cotton field to landfill shows the true cost of fast fashion

With many shops closed due to pandemic restrictions, Black Friday 2020 might have looked different from the frantic buying sprees

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Gabrielle Chanel. Fashion Manifesto – an expansive show of how the designer used fabric and shape to free the feminine form

The UK’s first exhibition dedicated to the work of French fashion designer Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel has opened at London’s Victoria

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a short history of female swimwear

Human beings have a surprisingly long relationship with the concept of swimwear. After all, the first heated swimming pool is believed

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Chinese brides wear as many as five dresses – yet provide inspiration for a sustainable fashion future

Across the Northern hemisphere flowers are blooming, days are warmer and birds are singing. In China, where I live, there

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Designer fashion, nostalgia magnet – what’s behind the rise and rise of the sneaker?

In June this year, hundreds of Australian shoppers queued – some overnight – to buy a pair of Yeezy Boost

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How Carla Zampatti pioneered wearable yet cosmopolitan clothes for women, and became a fashion icon

With the sudden death of Carla Zampatti, Australia has lost perhaps its most successful and loved fashion designer. Zampatti was