Although ingredients may have changed over the years, people have made up their faces for tens of thousands of years... Imagine the public shock when girls started wearing blue, green, purple and black lipsticks.
Many of the clothes seen on catwalks and in fashion magazines recently have been vibrantly coloured... Is this not disrespectful at a time when we are mourning the loss of so many lives to COVID-19?
Everything we wear has a story of manufacture, provenance, or personal signification. It also conveys a message to others. But Mulford went so far as to attribute our very state of being to our clothes.
Thea Porter was known as “the ultimate purveyor of ultra-luxe bohemian style.” Renowned for exotic fabrics and sumptuous patterned silks, inspired by her nostalgia for the Middle East...
The first habits adopted elements of men’s attire and were often inspired by military uniform. A caption to a 1779 drawing by John Downman in the Fitzwilliam Museum describes, “The Lady of Henry Bunbury in the Suffolk Militia uniform, the fashion of the day.”
The store’s mission is to help local people sell their record collections, reinvesting the proceeds towards the building of an archive, which already includes 650 of the 900 albums recorded at the studios between 1966 and 2009.
Kimono are worn wrapped left side over right, something I discovered when a Japanese friend kindly informed me the (opposite) way mine was worn was only appropriate when dressing the dead for burial.
Kyomaï aims to help transfer the rapidly disappearing essence of Japanese culture to the modern woman’s wardrobe, as well as perpetuating stories passed on through time-honoured symbols spun into these artfully handcrafted accessories.
A new show at Tate Modern reveals how the artist’s personal life influenced his work, highlighting an intellectual and spiritual depth not obviously associated with Pop Art.
