The clothing choices of the Windrush arrivals signified respect both for themselves and the life-changing journey they had undertaken.
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In its present form, the new Higher Education Bill lacks a governance framework that addresses the complaints of fee-paying students.
With No Time To Die pushed back for the third time, the timeliness that has contributed to the brand’s success could be its downfall.
A better understanding of science among ordinary people validates the vast amounts of public funds spent on scientific research.
Financial journalism standards have been declining, and with each new financial downturn the public has been ill served.
Gordon Shrigley is running for election with nothing to offer ‘but offer itself’ – Lois Rowe met up him to discuss.
If Elton was to take a look through fashion boycotts in the past, he wouldn’t find a great track record (not that he seems too set on this one anyway).
The line between advertising and editorial may be blurred in newspapers, but it’s all but non-existent in consumer magazines.
After a three-year court battle, the Tate has been forced to disclose how much money it receives in sponsorship from BP. The stubbornness seemed to indicate a massive sum, one the galleries could not do…
There’s nothing attractive about a flaccid penis. And the reaction to US designer Rick Owens’s peek-a-boo designs that he sent down the runway in Paris would hardly make you think there was. The media…
Organisations such as MIND work tirelessly to raise awareness of mental health problems and real progress has been made in destigmatising mental illness through campaigns such as Time to Change and Black…
So the education secretary Nicky Morgan thinks that the arts and humanities run a poor second to the STEM subjects (science, technology, engineering and maths) in the employability stakes. Over the past…
Ten years after the launch of Facebook and eight years after the launch of Twitter, social media has become more pervasive and our use of it more sophisticated. It’s no longer a place where we report what…
Earlier this year, Turner Prize nominee Duncan Campbell said that in making films he attempts to find what the writer Samuel Beckett termed “a form that accommodates the mess”. It is exactly this search…
Putting together words like normal and fashion feels like a contradiction, but that’s exactly what Gap is doing with its autumn/winter 2014 advertising campaign, called Dress Normal. It makes a virtue…
The words “trench coat” might make you think of a stylish, clean, unisex jacket. That feeling of exchanging your heavy winter coat for smart belted beige, striding down the street in springtime. Or perhaps…
Vivienne Westwood has launched new uniform designs for Virgin Atlantic. It’s sure to test whether the airline can remain competitive whilst crafting a progressive image: there’s a fine line between style…
In the last few months I’ve noticed a groundswell of murmurs about the internet’s relationship with culture. Again. But this time it relates to visual art. The discussion in terms of publishing is well…
In 1973, Marcel Duchamp said: “Art is not about itself, but the attention we bring to it.” This is something that this year’s Turner Prize shortlist brings to the fore. The shortlisted artists all have…
The rise of stitch and knit clubs, guerrilla knitting, yarn bombing and calls to knit sweaters for oil-spill affected penguins have all drawn attention to craft as a force for social change. Knitting is…
Authors
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Research fellow, University of the Arts London
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Professor of Dress, Diaspora and Transnationalism, University of the Arts London
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Course Director, Fashion Sportswear, University of the Arts London
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Head of Technology Enhanced Learning, University of the Arts London
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Professor of Marketing, Director of the Centre for Fashion Business Research., University of the Arts London
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Professor of Architecture, University of the Arts London
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Course Leader, BA (Hons) Fashion Journalism, London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London
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Course Leader and Fine Art Programme Director, University of the Arts London
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Chair of Art in the Environment, University of the Arts London
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Senior Lecturer in Media Studies, University of the Arts London
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Senior Lecturer in Contextual Studies for Film and Television, University of the Arts London
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Chair of Arts, Design & Science, University of the Arts London
