Fashion
Fashion’s closed circuit opens up and goes global – next stop cyberspace
Fashion season is in full swing. Marc Jacobs closed the 2016 New York Fashion Week with a psychedelic show featuring
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a brief history of women’s underwear
Are you a boxers or Y-fronts person? Thongs or bikinis? Sports bra or lace? Today, there’s a vast array of
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Michael Kors needed to boost its credibility to make it in the luxury market
By acquiring the prestigious Italian fashion house, Versace, American group Michael Kors enters the luxury world, despite a lack of
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What’s really driving the future of retail?
Many predictions about the “future of retailing” have been made. These range from the supposed dominance of certain technologies, to
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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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The ‘Mao suit’: how a military-style uniform changed the face of China – and clothed Australian prisoners during the Korean War
In the collection of the Australian War Memorial there is a photograph of four men in a North Korean prisoner
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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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Why fashion models don’t smile
It’s almost fashion week season, with events in London, New York and Paris all coming up, and I have one
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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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