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Dec 29, 2020

Gucci FW 2018 Campaign

Fashion exists in a set of paradoxical conditions. It works as a set of visual signifiers to create communities, to establish who is “in style” or “on trend” and who isn’t- trends churn in and out of fashion, creating a complex, constantly changing code of dress, easily readable to establish…

Fashion

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Gucci FW 2018 Campaign
Gucci FW 2018 Campaign
Fashion

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Dec 29, 2020

Aesthetic manifesto

Joyous. Intentional. I want, I want, I want. There’s a difference between a goal based life and a value based life, and I want to draw a similar distinction between a standards driven aesthetic and an emotions driven aesthetic. My aesthetic will not hinge on arbitrary standards such as thinness…

Fashion

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Fashion

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May 20, 2020

Beauty Rituals as Community :

Women’s Resilience and Agency Through Beauty Fashion, makeup, and beauty have served as tools of self-expression and assertion of identity for centuries. However, beauty is often undercut in critical theory, either by a patriarchal view of all traditionally feminine activities as inferior, such as the traditional thought deeply entrenched in…

Beauty

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Beauty Rituals as Community :
Beauty Rituals as Community :
Beauty

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May 20, 2020

Roy Halston, Rise and Fall

Roy Halston was the American designer who epitomized 1970s glamour fashion, and arguably represented the dichotomy between French and American fashion industries and their place in public consciousness in his elevated, minimalist yet functional and accessible ethos, as opposed to more elite and less practical French haute couture. Roy’s contemporary…

Halston

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Halston
Halston
Halston

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Katherine Shark

Katherine Shark

California fibers artist, designer, and garment maker. https://www.katherineshark.com/

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