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For nearly 60 years, Cue dressed Australian women for changing working lives. Its troubles reveal how work, fashion and professional dress have changed.
The scandal surrounding Galliano marks one of the most significant falls from grace in modern fashion history.
Developing a new material is only the first step. Convincing an industry built around traditional textiles to adopt it is a very different challenge.
Hooded garments are nothing new – we’ve even got hoodies that date back to the Iron Age. But how did the modern garment come to be everywhere?
AI-generated fashion models may become the future, but they should be used responsibly.
Two garments made from the same fibre may have very different environmental footprints depending on how they were processed and finished.
Modern fashion trends have nothing on the agony caused by the fads of yesteryear.
Influencer culture is not a thing of the past, and yet the movers and shakers of post-revolutionary France are proof that writing lifestyle columns and trending is a centuries-old pursuit.
What happens when a rapper whose early work explored capitalism’s brutality becomes one of the system’s most successful beneficiaries?
Clowns turned the body into spectacle. Spectacle is now integral to fashion.
Osaka is part of a tradition of Black women using style not as decoration but as a way of asserting identity, heritage and agency.
The average wardrobe has about 200 items of clothing. Many of these may never earn their environmental keep.
The Schiaparelli haute-couture brand continues to capitalise on its founder’s erstwhile connections to the artworld and understanding of the cultural zeitgeist
Glamour isn’t just for the rich and famous. As the ‘Ball Without Billionaires’ showed, the blue collar can bedazzle.
In the words of fashion designer Yohji Yamamoto: ‘Above all black says this: I don’t bother you – don’t bother me!’
Centuries-old habits shaped today’s fashion standards.
The style was worn by well known models such as Kate Moss and it girl Alexa Chung.
The original indie sleaze moment emerged in the early-mid 2000s, connecting with music, fashion, nightlife and online culture.
As celebrity shrinking dominates the red carpet, the Met’s Costume Art exhibition bucks the trend with body shapes that signal acceptance and inclusion.
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Associate Professor in Fashion and Material Culture, Nottingham Trent University
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Teaching Fellow, University of Sydney
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Distinguished Professor of Design History, UTS, University of Technology Sydney
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Chancellor’s Indigenous Research Fellow, Faculty of Design and Society, University of Technology Sydney
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Oak Foundation Lecturer in History of Dress and Textiles, Courtauld Institute of Art
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Lecturer, Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies, Deakin University
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Senior Lecturer, School of Fashion and Textiles, RMIT University
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Senior Lecturer in Fashion Enterprise, Torrens University Australia
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Professor and Dean of the School of Fashion and Textiles, RMIT, RMIT University
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Lecturer, Fashion Design, School of Design and Architecture, Swinburne University of Technology
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Course Leader, BA (Hons) Fashion Journalism, London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London
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Associate Professor of History, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
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Kluge Fellow at the Library of Congress
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Honorary Research Fellow, School of Design, University of Technology Sydney
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Visiting Scholar: School of Architecture and School of Engineering, University of Technology Sydney