Young parents often look for the name that will be as unique as their kid.
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How we name our children follows trends like any other cultural expression. It’s about taste as well as broader societal shifts.
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After Florence Pugh posted a photo of herself wearing a sheer, nipple-revealing gown, her Instagram was flooded with an influx of toxic comments about Pugh’s body.
Despite a downturn in sales driven by the pandemic, luxury products are being sold with speed.
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Across these retail places, cultural workers like stylists and visual merchandisers colour our purchases. How do they do it? I aimed to find out.
Love Island has faced past criticism for not promoting sustainable lifestyles.
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Sustainable fashion collaborations show that living an eco-friendly life can be fun - here’s how popular shows can help dismantle consumerism altogether.
No baggy shirts and trousers with expanding waistbands, singer Rihanna has chosen form fitting clothing that exposes rather than hides her pregnancy.
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The Victorians are to blame for our conservative ideas about how a pregnant body should look
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Kim Kardashian wore Marilyn Monroe’s dress for five minutes at the Met Gala. That’s showbiz.
Screen shot of Ralph Lauren’s homepage for its new Morehouse and Spelman fashions.
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Long considered an arbiter of American fashion, Ralph Lauren has unveiled a clothing line targeting students at Black colleges.
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The environmental footprint of the fashion industry is rising rapidly. Drastic changes are needed to make the sector more sustainable and equitable.
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Depicted as a restrictive and painful undergarment, the corset is often depicted as a symbol of women’s oppression in period dramas.
The Gucci dress worn by Harry Styles on the cover of Vogue in December 2020 and the black Christian Siriano tuxedo dress worn by Billy Porter to the Oscars in 2019.
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The bold and beautiful Fashioning Masculinities show reveals how male sartorial “transgressions” have a rich and complex history.
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‘Fashion fasts’ are a great way of challenging fast fashion by helping us question how many clothes we really need and reducing fashion consumption.
Attributed to Pieter Cornelisz van Rijck, Kitchen interior with the parable of the rich man and the poor Lazarus, c. 1620-20.
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While men wrote about women “deforming” their bodies in corsets, there is very little writing from women themselves about what the experience was like.
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The former creative director and editor-at-large of the fashion magazine has died aged 73.
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Our new research sets out six ways to cut a more gender-just and sustainable fashion sector.
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Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel transformed women’s fashion across the world: how do we recognise her complex background, difficult choices and ongoing legacy?
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From magnetic closures to specialty 3D designs, fashion labels are thinking about how their clothing can be worn by everyone.
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Beyond just his music, Freddie Mercury’s performances, style, and fluidity influenced both his generation and those that followed.
Valued well above US$1 billion, Kim Kardashian’s Skims is now among the most successful and quickly growing shapewear brands.
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Important questions surrounding the praise over Kim Kardashian’s Skims are missing from mainstream conversations.
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How the big brands made it.
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More and more students want their universities to lead the way on sustainability issues. But are institutions doing enough to produce industry leaders who can meet that challenge?