“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)

CROSS-CULTURAL BORROWING: AFRICAN FASHION IN EUROPE

Date: 16 March  2015
Category: photoshoot

Cross-cultural borrowing is compounded in an era when everyone travels, and when the availability of information through the media and the Internet is immediate (Loughran…

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VIKTOR & ROLF, ATELIER VLISCO AND VINCENT VAN GOGH

Date: 02 February  2015
Category: Vlisco

“I put my heart and soul in my work and have lost my mind in the process” – VINCENT VAN GOGH. My first reaction to…

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SALON/BIG BANG AT OUDE KERK

Date: 12 November  2014
Category: fashion & technology

This Summer (2014), SALON/ presented an exhibition at the Oude Kerk, Amsterdam. The exhibition was inspired by the idea that “universe, earth, plants, animals and…

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