Ethical Style: Should You Really Wear That 'Ethnic' Print?

Source: Good Magazine

In the fashion industry, appropriating ethnic cultures to stock mainstream closets has long been en vogue. To sell new clothes, fashion has wrapped turbans around Edwardian heads, clasped Egyptian bracelets on flappers’ wrists, and swath ...
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Tokuko1er Vol – 2012 – Turquie

Source: Tokyo Telephone

Tokuko 1er Vol, despite having a name that I can never remember off the top of my head for obvious reasons (allegedly it’s pronounced Tokuko premier vol – thanks, katakana!), makes some pretty memorable clothes. Last seasons I wrote about the ama ...
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World Goth Day has roused dark memories in me | Adam Rutherford

Source: Guardian Unlimited

The first gig I went to was Shakin' Stevens. Set that aside for the time being. The second gig I went to was the Fields of the Nephilim. With the band covered in what I now understand to be flour, the epic sense of stepping out of the dusty desert wa ...
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Is the African-Inspired Fashion Trend a Form of Cultural Appropriation?

Source: Ecouterre

Fashion and cultural appropriation are more than passing acquaintances. The latter, which is typically bandied about with terms like “borrowing” or “inspired by,” refers to the unauthorized adoption of elements from another, ...
Full article at: Ecouterre  More like this  5 days ago, 12:07pm CDT