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Bridgerton – how period dramas made audiences hate the corset

When you think of a corset, you might imagine period drama dames sucking in as they cling onto a bedpost

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fashion has always been at the heart of gender politics

The image of pop star Harry Styles wearing a Gucci dress on the cover of Vogue in December 2020 garnered

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why I’m cutting my wardrobe down to ten items this month

The rise of fast fashion has led to huge increases in the amount of clothes made, bought and thrown away.

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in hand-making 400-year-old corset designs, I was able to really understand how they impacted women

In this new series, Remaking History, academics take a look at the ways they are recreating historical practices, and how

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André Leon Talley dreamed of a life ‘in the pages of Vogue, where bad things never happened’

Every time we see a “fashion moment”, we use the words of André Leon Talley, from his description of Galliano’s

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How we can use the law to make the fashion industry fairer to women and the earth

In March 1911, in a garment factory in Manhattan, over 100 people, mostly Jewish and Italian women migrants, some as

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Friday essay: Chanel’s complex legacy

Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel, friend of artist Jean Cocteau and lover of musician Igor Stravinsky, transformed women’s fashion across the world.

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What is adaptive clothing and how can it make life easier for people with a disability?

Have you ever tried to do up a zip or button a shirt one-handed? Put on a pair of jeans

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Freddie Mercury 30 years on – remembering the theatrical, eccentric genius

There is no doubt that Freddie Mercury was a genius: it’s clear in his music, his theatrical performances, and his

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Praise for Kim Kardashian’s Skims ignores her family’s relationship with body augmentation

Kim Kardashian’s much talked about shapewear brand, Skims, made headlines in September for its most recent campaign featuring her sister