Using images stolen from across the web, sketchy retailers are selling ultra-discounted clothes to women on Facebook. A BuzzFeed News investigation shows many are linked to one of China’s richest men.
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When it comes to her hair, Hillary Clinton will never win
The fuss around Hillary Clinton’s $600 hair cut is highlighting hypocrisy in the media. Image-conscious politicians are scorned for lacking relatability, yet we act scandalized if they’re not perpetually camera ready.
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Five Women of Color Get Real About the Fashion Industry
Vogue’s Marjon Carlos, Refinery29’s Connie Wang, Latina Magazine‘s Verky Arcos Baldonado, Native Max Founder Kelly Holmes and freelance writer Amina Akhtar on the importance of diversity in fashion.
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ELLE on Earth
The most hotly debated fashion article of last week: how a leading women’s magazine ruined a once-in-a-lifetime interview with fashion legend Rei Kawakubo.
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When Going Out Without a Hat Was Grounds for Scandal
Back in the day, women with bare heads may as well have been naked. Atlas Obscura maps the history of women and hats that is deeply rooted in social protocols steaming from religious ideas around modesty and control.
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THE REVOLUTION WILL BE BRANDED VETEMENTS
Heiled as ‘truly revolutionary’, ‘radical’ and ‘democratic’, the news reporting around Paris-based fashion label Vetements has been paradoxical, hyperbolic and full of rhetoric. Vestoj publication unpicks the language used to describe the new darling of fashion.
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Barbie Boy
How Jeremy Scott, the designer of choice for pop stars such as Britney Spears and Katy Perry, remade Italian fashion brand Moschino for the Instagram era.
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Our Pungent History: Sweat, Perfume, and the Scent of Death
Over the last few millennia, as scientific knowledge and social norms have fluctuated, what Westerners considered smelling “good” has changed drastically. Hunter Oatman-Stanford maps the scented history of perfume.
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Emoji Feminism
Amy Butcher argues that women are misrepresented as mere out-dated archetypes in emoji-land: the flamenco dancer in her red gown, the bride in her flowing veil, the princess in her gold tiara.
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