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The Victorians are to blame for our conservative ideas about how a pregnant body should look
Kim Kardashian wore Marilyn Monroe’s dress for five minutes at the Met Gala. That’s showbiz.
Long considered an arbiter of American fashion, Ralph Lauren has unveiled a clothing line targeting students at Black colleges.
The environmental footprint of the fashion industry is rising rapidly. Drastic changes are needed to make the sector more sustainable and equitable.
Depicted as a restrictive and painful undergarment, the corset is often depicted as a symbol of women’s oppression in period dramas.
The bold and beautiful Fashioning Masculinities show reveals how male sartorial “transgressions” have a rich and complex history.
‘Fashion fasts’ are a great way of challenging fast fashion by helping us question how many clothes we really need and reducing fashion consumption.
While men wrote about women “deforming” their bodies in corsets, there is very little writing from women themselves about what the experience was like.
The former creative director and editor-at-large of the fashion magazine has died aged 73.
Our new research sets out six ways to cut a more gender-just and sustainable fashion sector.
Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel transformed women’s fashion across the world: how do we recognise her complex background, difficult choices and ongoing legacy?
From magnetic closures to specialty 3D designs, fashion labels are thinking about how their clothing can be worn by everyone.
Beyond just his music, Freddie Mercury’s performances, style, and fluidity influenced both his generation and those that followed.
Important questions surrounding the praise over Kim Kardashian’s Skims are missing from mainstream conversations.
How the big brands made it.
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?
People have always wanted others to know they’re smart, and what better way to do that than with clothes?
Politician Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wore a provocative ‘Tax the rich’ emblazoned gown to the Met Gala - here are five examples of other political fashion statements.
Pronouncements made by the Chinese government often cloak a hidden agenda.
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Teaching Fellow, University of Sydney
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Oak Foundation Lecturer in History of Dress and Textiles, Courtauld Institute of Art
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Distinguished Professor of Design History, UTS, University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Professor in Fashion, Queensland University of Technology, Queensland University of Technology
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Senior Lecturer in Fashion Marketing and Branding, Nottingham Trent University
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Course Leader, BA (Hons) Fashion Journalism, London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London
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Associate Professor - Deputy Head of Fashion and Textiles, RMIT University
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Visiting Scholar: School of Architecture and School of Engineering, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Marketing and Consumer Behaviour, Queensland University of Technology
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Senior Curator of Indigenous Art, National Gallery of Victoria, The University of Melbourne
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Assistant Professor, Design History and Theory, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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Associate Professor of History, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
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Fashion historian, Edith Cowan University
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Assistant Professor of Fashion Design, Ethics and Sustainability, School of Fashion, Toronto Metropolitan University
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Professor, Lectra Fashion and Technology Chair, ESCP Business School
