When we consider the ‘staples’ of fashion history, there are a few things that may come to mind: Dior’s ‘New Look’ from 1947; supermodels and designers, Kate Moss and Chanel; decade-based fashion history – the 1960s, the 1830s, the 1770s… and, from the beginning of the 20th century, Vogue magazine. At first and traditionally allContinue reading “Fashion History was Never Straight: Madge Garland, Dorothy Todd and Vogue”
Monthly Archives: November 2020
Black Feminism and Lesbian Fashion (The Material is Political)
One of the principles of second-wave feminism was the concept that “the personal is political.” This meant that the lives of oppressed people are as political and as attention-worthy as governmental politics. The material conditions of people’s lives are vital to analyse if we are to understand our various positions in the world, the thingsContinue reading “Black Feminism and Lesbian Fashion (The Material is Political)”
Dressing Dykes 