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Embracing Culture through Clothing: How Gen-Z Incorporates Ethnic Wear into the Everyday
The use of fashion as a medium of self-expression is an age-old practice. At a glance, personal style can offer onlookers a brief glimpse into one’s interests, values and culture, meaning that the way you choose to dress and the things you wear stand as a reflection of you.
Clothing and the Physical Form (continued)
Recent fashion and beauty trends have shifted from the body positivity movement toward more traditional beauty standards. This is epitomised in the return of skinniness as the physical ideal and lack of current emphasis on the body positivity movement in the face of traditional beauty standards.
Clothing and the Physical Form
Throughout history, societal beauty standards have continuously evolved, with each decade reflecting shifting cultural values, gender roles and media influences. From curvaceous silhouettes to ultra-thin frames, the ideal body type has been shaped by fashion, film and social change, leaving a lasting impact on how individuals perceive and present themselves.
Lights, Camera, Walk: Behind the Glamour
Flashing lights from DSLRs, makeup accompanied by hours of styling and accumulated miles on stilettoes all for one moment down the runway. As the audience, we often see all this happen on social media, especially watching your favourite influencer jumping from one Fashion week in Paris to another in New York.
Mini Skirt Matriarch: Mary Quant
The fashion of the mid-1960s is a time capsule reminiscent of a rising revolution; young people wore progressively more revealing clothing while womenswear became more expressive. How did this change take off? The mini-skirt and, the matriarch herself, Dame Mary Quant.
Dressing to Impress
Last year I realised I had to get my life together. I figured out I couldn’t pretend to be a computer scientist or engineer anymore. I would be destined for a life of instability and constant freelancing in a creative industry. Nevertheless, this was the crossroads I’d come to.
At the Intersection of Skate Fashion & Delinquency
In the opening of Larry Clark’s gritty and controversial 1995 film Kids, we meet two careless troublemaker teens; Telly and Casper. Their busted Chuck Taylors and baggy pants make the two immediately recognisable as delinquent skaters.
The Circle of Life (but mostly fashion)
Do you remember those early Saturday morning rises? The smell of your morning toast, with an old boxy CRT television flickering the flannel clad cigarette-core style of our alt icons on ABC’s Rage?
Breaking Free From Branding: How Op-Shops Empower Your Style
Ever feel like the clothes you wear aren’t truly you? Maybe it’s time to ditch the constant rotation of trends and discover your own style – one thrifted gem at a time.