Fashion depends, to some degree, on the disappearance of its own labour. By the time a garment is presented as finished, the traces through which it was cut, fitted and assembled have usually been removed.
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Nii Hai Is Growing Up With Its Girls
There is a particular problem that confronts any independent fashion label fortunate enough to survive its emergence: how to grow without becoming generic.
Viva Per Sempre: Valente’s NYFW Ode to Family
Memory is both a potent artistic and cultural catalyst. Memory as archive, memory as tradition, memory as meaning-making, and as emotional processing; translated into the sartorial it can represent a second skin of sorts, an embodiment of cultural heritage, and an embodied manifestation of self-hood and lineage.