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Whether fashionable or functional, the handbag – and what it contains – is intensely personal. The Chanel 2.55, Wikimedia Commons

The story of … the handbag

Karen de Perthuis, UNSW

Under attack from a flock of killer crows, Tippi Hedren in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1963 thriller The Birds, pauses to collect her handbag. It’s an instinctive gesture that many women would recognise. For a…
The ACMI Hollywood Exhibition – just one of many fashion-focussed gallery shows this year. Mark Inducil

Fashion cuts a dash in Australian galleries – but is it art?

Karen de Perthuis, Western Sydney University

All year, the Australian fashion industry has been making the wrong sort of headlines. There have been boardroom shenanigans, empty shop fronts and retail woes. Of course, the news hasn’t been all bad…

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