Tag Archives: Fashion
“Slave earrings”: Fabulously racist fashion jewelry
Tweet Nothing like starting the week off with some racism-inspired earrings to decorate these lobes! First, it was plantation weddings, now it’s “slave earrings.” Apparently making a mockery of slavery is so chic these days that Vogue Italia decided to highlight it as the newest fashion craze: Jewellery has always flirted with circular shapes, especially [...]
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The Feministing Five: Tavi Gevinson
TweetTavi Gevinson is a fashion and style blogger whose great eye for clothes and youthful but preternaturally mature voice have taken the fashion world by storm. Tavi started blogging about fashion and style at the age of 11. Now 15, she still writes about those things, and in a thoughtful and entirely un-frivolous way, but [...]
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Savage beauty: searching for feminism in the grotesque
Tweet “I want to empower women. I want people to be afraid of the women I dress,” says the first of many placards quoting the late Alexander McQueen, in the haunting, horrifying and beautifully curated costume show of the year in his honor, Savage Beauty, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. I finally made it [...]
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Where hip gear and global economic development meet
TweetMy column this week is on the one-to-one businesses, TOMS being the most well-known, sprouting up all over the place. But before you go shoe shopping with a big, guiltless smile on your well-intentioned face, read a bit about some of the important distinctions between different types of approaches. An excerpt: To begin with, giving [...]
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NYT Mag features women rocking natural hair and evening gowns