“As a semiotic system, fashion is defined as autonomous or self-referential. Dress may mark the gender, class, status or role, even the fantasy selves, of its wearer within the larger social system. But dress as fashion and within the fashion system ultimately signifies its own fashionability.”
(Rabine 2002: 11)
Date: 29 July 2015
Category: Islamic inspired fashion(s)
I love to wear veils. Especially during summer because headwraps remind me of my time spend in Ghana. I do not however veil for the…
Date: 07 July 2015
Category: cultural heritage
Bosnia Herzegovina, the least touristic country in Europe, the most inspiring when in comes to heritage and history. For us Dutch, the Srebrenica summer proceedings…
Date: 18 May 2015
Category: fashion trends
Last week’s workshop at the Tropenmuseum in Amsterdam has not only inspired me to go through my old books on ethnography, it also made me…
