
Surrealist Spotlight: Elsa Schiaparelli’s "Tears Dress"
In 1938, Elsa Schiaparelli and Salvador Dalí combined efforts to concoct the “Tears Dress”, as the duo often manifested such surrealist...

The Cyclical Model Face
Caroline Evans wrote in Fashion at the Edge: spectacle, modernity and deathliness that “a consideration of historicism in 1990s fashion...

Self-Made Scandal: How Interview Magazine Provoked Outrage with Kylie Jenner
Andy Warhol’s Interview Magazine has always been well-known for their blatant use of shock tactics, which inevitably stem from their...

Desire and Ritual : A Look into Fashion's Irrationality
Cover photo from the s/s 1997 collection by Comme Des Garçons, often referred to the ‘lumps and bumps’ collection

The Hearing Trumpet: Ageism, the Female Body and an Apocalypse
I came to love Leonora Carrington from reading her surrealist novel, Down Below, during a French Surrealism course my sophomore year at...

Marni Resort 2021 Review
Blurry, obscure and daring, Francesco Risso of Marni questions the tale-as-old-as-time constraints of beauty. Psychedelic flowers and...

Couture in the Time of Covid-19
In the midst of a worldwide pandemic, Pierpaolo Piccioli’s Haute Couture Fall 2020 for Valentino paints how the fashion industry is able...

The Unexpected Harm Behind Natural Dyes
This piece explores the false connotations of 'natural' within the textile and dye industry through a visit to the Textile Arts Center in NY

Fashion as Work: The Implications of Imperialism
Fashion is often considered a passive, leisurely activity; yet, when understanding the capitalist and colonialist implications that allow...

Fashion and the Female Spectator in Hitchcock’s Vertigo
An essay exploring Fashion and the Female Spectator in Alfred Hitchcock's psychological thriller, Vertigo

The World of Anna Sui: M.A.D Exhibit Review
Anna Sui in NYC Office In the quaint halls of the Museum of Arts and Design, located right off of Columbus Circle in New York City, Anna...

The Chiffon Trenches: A Black Man’s Crusade Through Fashion
The Chiffon Trenches allows the reader to not only learn the “gossip” of fashion couturiers and the upper echelons of famed publications, bu













