Cosplay involves fans dressing up as a favourite pop culture character, but it’s also a way to experiment with gender. Is there a difference between the way men and women crossplay?
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Seriously though - can fashion really damage your health?
Female faculty are far more likely to be seen as less smart than their male counterparts in student evaluations. How damaging are such comments?
A walk through some of the more extreme examples of historical shoes.
The most simple form of adornment – a single piece of cloth – can be a signifier of status and wealth.
Meet four women who have lived, breathed and worked to actually become Alice.
The debate over the color of “the dress,” a social media phenomena, tells us a lot about how internet-wide opinions are formed and manipulated.
Australian Aboriginal dress is rarely cited as a key inspiration for contemporary clothes designers. Maybe it’s time that changed.
It’s easy to dismiss fashion as trivial but the clothes we wear have stories to tell. Fashion is part of everyday experience and our memories are often stitched into the seams of our favourite dresses.
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).
It’s okay, even desirable, to let the fashion “poker face” slip every now and again.
Apple’s ability to mesh technology with beautiful design will be put to the test in its much anticipated Apple Watch, destined to become the must have high-tech fashion item.
In the designer’s embrace of this gothic past, he is an artist for our time.
Studies have shown that your shoe choice may say a lot about you. What better time to test this out than fashion week?
Costume in the TV adaptation is not only authentic. It also, like the use of dress in contemporary Tudor portraiture, helps tell the story.
Men of all demographics seem to be wearing shorter and shorter hem lines. To what can we attribute this change?
The line between advertising and editorial may be blurred in newspapers, but it’s all but non-existent in consumer magazines.
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…
Extravagant, garish and irredeemably ostentatious Christmas jumpers will shortly be gifted and unwrapped in many households in the UK over the festive season. Already last year’s editions have appeared…
London has just experienced a fashion show quite unlike any other, despite its long history as one of the world’s four fashion capitals. Victoria’s Secret, for those who are unacquainted, is an underwear…
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Teaching Fellow, University of Sydney
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Distinguished Professor of Design History, UTS, University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Professor in Fashion Marketing and Branding, Nottingham Trent University
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Oak Foundation Lecturer in History of Dress and Textiles, Courtauld Institute of Art
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Professor and Dean of the School of Fashion and Textiles, RMIT, RMIT University
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Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Indigenous Research Fellow, Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building, University of Technology Sydney
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Course Leader, BA (Hons) Fashion Journalism, London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London
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Lecturer, Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies, Deakin University
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Associate Professor of History, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
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Associate Professor, Fashion History, De Montfort University
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Professor, Lectra Fashion and Technology Chair, ESCP Business School
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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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Lecturer, Fashion Enterprise, RMIT University
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Assistant Professor, Design History and Theory, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
