A Relationship with Fashion: Thoughts from an Anthropology Student
by Silvia Irina Berástegui I arrived in Brighton 5 years ago with the dream of finding a good job and starting an autonomous life of my own. During…
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Work injury compensation still missing in Bangladesh’s labour standards
by Rebecca Prentice **Republished from The Conversation.** In the five years since the collapse of the Rana Plaza garment factory building in Bangladesh – in which more than 1,134…
Training Adorno
Is it mean to advise someone wanting to write on sneakers to go and read Adorno? On trainers/sneakers, surely Adorno would be asking what is so secretive about…
How to read a t-shirt (and the future)
Listening for the future is a tricky thing. If we listen far enough out into the future, we are dealing with very weak signals. Or, better, we are…
Confronting the Specter of Cultural Appropriation
[no-caption] kokouu/Getty Images Humans celebrate many things—from rites of passage to religious events to groundhogs. One of the most intriguing, anthropologically speaking, is Halloween…
Review: Le plus beau métier du monde
** This article first appeared in Allegra. Republished here with permission ** by Miriam Odoni Giulia Mensitieri’s book “Le plus beau métier du monde” Dans les coulisses de…
#Review: Le plus beau métier du monde
Giulia Mensitieri’s book “Le plus beau métier du monde” Dans les coulisses de l’industrie de la mode examines labor in the cultural and creative industries. Analyzing fashion as…
Why Are Some Caves Full of Shoes?
I’ve spent a good chunk of my life hiking the U.S. Southwest, and I’ve kicked my share of sharp rocks and prickly cactuses as I’ve walked across hot…
Do Clothes Make a Messiah?
[no-caption] Livioandronico2013/Wikimedia Commons This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. Over the past few decades, the…
Fame, femininity, financial vitriol: a methodology of Kommercial success
by Mac Spencer We begin at one of this century’s most infamous ascents to celebrity status, which I assume needs little retelling. In 2007, a leaked sex tape…
Book Review: Personal Style Blogs: Appearances That Fascinate by Rosie Findlay
In Personal Style Blogs: Appearances That Fascinate, Rosie Findlay analyses the development of personal style blogs from their early origins, situating this sub-genre of fashion blog within a ‘l…
Fat Consequences
Obesity is about more than stigma, it is about exceeding one’s social space. Diabetes foot clinic, Apia, Samoa Looking over the shoulder of Sina, the only podiatrist in…
Five years after deadly factory fire, Bangladesh’s garment workers are still vulnerable
by Geert De Neve and Rebecca Prentice (Previously posted on The Conversation UK.) Five years ago last month, in November 2012, a fire in the Tazreen Fashions factory…
Is it time for Finnish celebrities to save the black girls of a “developing country”?
Is it time for Finnish celebrities to save black girls of a “developing country”? This is the question that might occur to someone familiar with post-colonial studies observing…
LOOK AT ME! – Das Schaufenster eines der ältesten Werbemedien
Part II Tatsächlich sucht die Kunst der Decoration ihresgleichen. Denn es gibt hierzulande nicht mehr viele Kaufhäuser/ Stors, die ihre Waren so aufwendig und ohne reine Produktpräsintation…
LOOK AT ME! – Das Schaufenster eines der ältesten Werbemedien
Part I Andy Warhol und Dali haben schon Schaufenster gestaltet. Heute heuern noch die wenigsten Unternehmen kreative Dekorateure an. Doch wer es sich dann doch traut, im Schaufenster Geschichte…
Muslim Dandies
For some Muslim men, dress offers a form of racial and religious resistance and redemption. Typically, when we talk about Islam and fashion the focus is on women.…
The Continuous Labor of Fashion
At New York Fashion Week models, bloggers, and photographers are always on. It’s easy to hate the bloggers. At New York Fashion Week, the premier semi-annual industry event…
Unlaced
A brief tale of corsetry. Corseting in the popular imagination is rife with myths: it was a distinctly upper-class practice; women frequently died from having their laces tied…
To Dwell in Seams
Fashion as Buried Forms of Diasporic Memory I keep returning this one memory. As a kid, I go down the steps to the basement of my parent’s New…
About a Boy and a Wig Curler
Archaeological small finds can tell us a great deal about how status, gender, and identity are situated in and on the body. In December 1759, John Page noted…
The Many Hands Shirt: Reuniting a Family and an Heirloom
In late 2013, I got an out-of-the-blue call from Stella Iron Cloud, a member of the Oglala Lakota (a.k.a. Oglala Sioux) Tribe of South Dakota. She asked if…
How Babywearing Went Mainstream
Baby carriers—an ancient tool adapted to modern times—offer parents a way to bond with their child and express their individuality. Michelle Jones/SAPIENS Danielle Gold has 18 baby carrie…
Antropología de la moda
Premios Oscar 2017. Foto editada a partir de una imagen tomada de la televisiónUna actriz y un actor se dirigen hacia el público para develar uno de los…