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Your identity changes when you move house and, if that's to a different community, your clothes change along with you.
In the 1850s, the women's dress reform movement advocated for a return to medieval design. The practice continues today.
For centuries, men’s fashion has been part of dynamic social change. Hairstyles, fabrics and suit styles have carried a political charge.
The cultural appropriation debate has flared after an American teenager wore a qipao, a Chinese-style dress, to her prom. But the meanings around the dress are complicated.
A century ago, utopian thinkers and practitioners predicted the coming of a nude world of liberated bodies.
We may imagine Jesus in long robes with baggy sleeves, but this is far from how he would have dressed.
Water pollution, toxic chemical use and textile waste: fast fashion comes at a huge cost to the environment.
Our clothes are cheaper, flimsier and shorter-lived than ever. But jeans, a staple of the modern wardrobe, are actually designed to be long-lasting – provided you take proper care of them.
When Malcolm Turnbull released his innovation agenda, the arts were missing. But Australia's fashion industry is a true innovator, comparable to French and Italian fashion houses. It's time to recognise this at home.
Regular controversies over breastfeeding might seem like a quirk of contemporary life. But 18th and 19th century clothing reveal that women have been handling the issue of visibility and practicality for centuries.
New York Fashion week starts today and the world will watch outrageous designs strut down the runway. How did New York become one of the great fashion centres of the modern world?
I recently went to heaven, aka attended a week-long conference in Oxford devoted entirely to fashion theory. I presented a paper on catwalk shows, which you’ve heard me bang on about before here (and here…
This year’s summer resort wear collections have received lukewarm press, and have seen the whole idea of resort collections thrown into question. Writing in the New York Times, Vanessa Friedman described…
In the world of luxury fashion, Chanel stands apart from the crowd. But it’s not the designs that make it different. The French luxury brand is one of the last few major labels that does not sell its clothes…
If you’re worried about dressing ethically, chances are you think about sweatshop conditions in developing countries, unsustainable farming practices, convoluted global supply chains that ring up a huge…
A new coating for cotton that is 1½ times more water-repellent than Teflon can survive for dozens of machine washes, say…
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Senior lecturer in Fashion, Queensland University of Technology, Queensland University of Technology
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PhD Student, RMIT University
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Distinguished Professor of Design History, UTS, University of Technology Sydney
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Teaching Fellow, University of Sydney
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L'Oréal Professor of Creativity Marketing, ESCP Europe
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Oak Foundation Lecturer in History of Dress and Textiles, Courtauld Institute of Art
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Professor of English, Macquarie University
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Professor of Brand Management, University of Sussex
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Research Associate at the United States Studies Centre, University of Sydney
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Principal Lecturer in the History of Art and Design, University of Brighton
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PhD Candidate, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor (honorary), University of Melbourne
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Research Associate, Queensland University of Technology
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Deputy Head, Industry Engagement - RMIT School of Fashion & Textiles, RMIT University
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Senior Lecturer in Fashion Marketing, University of Manchester
