Frivolity of Fashion

In the new millennium, fashion can no longer be credibly characterised as a mere hobby for aristocratic women with little else to do; fashion is now a multi-billion-dollar industry with countless stakeholders. But even where the economic stakes in fashion-related cases are too great for a court to simply ‘opt out,’ as many of the above-mentioned judges did, federal judges presiding over such cases still make their distaste for the subject matter clear (even, and maybe especially, female judges).

WHY BEING A DEMOCRAT IS ALWAYS FASHIONABLE

Opinion

WHY BEING A DEMOCRAT IS ALWAYS FASHIONABLE

Dressing in US Election Times

27 September 2016

by Alice Hines

Before there was Clinton swag, there was Obama swag. Before there was Obama swag, there was Kerry swag. Whom are these items trying to convince? Do we purchase a Hillary Clinton T-shirt to show solidarity, or to build our personal brands? Do designers create them because they will change hearts and minds – or to reassure themselves that their industry has a role to play in their nation’s critical decisions?

Dialogue Between Fashion and Death

Fiction

Dialogue Between Fashion and Death

Giacomo Leopardi and the Thin Veil Between Fashion and Mortality

25 March 2014

by Vestoj Editors

The Romantic poem ‘Dialogue Between Fashion and Death’ is curious and resonating work that deals with the powerful connection between dress and mortality. The piece presents ‘Fashion’ as a fictional character in conversation with ‘Death’, that is, like Death, actively responsible for human suffering.