Monthly Archives: August 2010
Fashion and Race: Running (from) the Numbers Game
Thus far, I’ve read only a very small number of September issue fashion magazines: American Vogue (chock full of great or more precisely, useful, evidence for my research on the democratization of fashion), Teen Vogue, and New York Magazine. I … Continue reading
Filed under FASHIONING RACE
The “Blogging Muumuu” is Genius
Jezebel somewhat cheekily calls FLOTUS’ garb the “blogging muumuu” – and I couldn’t agree more! I could write for days in that thing! I don’t know why so many photos of bloggers show them perched at their laptops decked out … Continue reading
Filed under OUR JUNK DRAWER
Semester’s Start Takes Me By Surprise, Again
My semester began this last Monday, and although I’m on teaching leave, I’m still working — there are all-day faculty meetings, for instance, as well as the usual committee service (in my case, for two programs because of my split … Continue reading
Filed under LINKAGE, SARTORIAL INDULGENCES
What’s Beautiful in Eco-Disaster Chic?
The latest contribution to “oil spill-inspired” fashion has come from a small footwear company called Bed|Stü.** The boat shoes (pictured above and available for purchase in November) are from their “Gulf Coast Cleanup” collection. The shoes aren’t yet listed on … Continue reading
Filed under DEMOCRATIZATION OF FASHION, ON BEAUTY
The “Beauty Penalty” in Academia
About a year ago, I wrote a post called, “Mind over Malls, or Does Academia Hate Fashion?”. There’s a lot I would revise about this blog post – it’s been more than a year since I wrote it, after all! … Continue reading
Filed under ON BEAUTY
New Book Alert: The Fat Studies Reader
I just got an email announcement about Esther Rothblum and Sondra Solovay’s latest edited volume titled, The Fat Studies Reader (NYU Press) this morning. I haven’t read the book but reading the description and the Table of Contents, I thought … Continue reading
Filed under IN THE CLASSROOM, THEORY TO THINK WITH
Meet Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu, author of The Beautiful Generation: Asian Americans and the Cultural Economy of Fashion
We’re over the moon about this profile post on NYU professor Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu, whose fabulously smart book, The Beautiful Generation: Asian Americans and the Cultural Economy of Fashion, is due out this Winter from Duke University Press. Longtime … Continue reading
Sartorial Classification as a Weapon of War
ONE afternoon earlier this month, David Tabbert, wearing Ray-Bans and glinting metal earrings, headed out on a shopping trip to one of his usual Brooklyn haunts: Islam Fashion Inc. on Atlantic Avenue. Though Mr. Tabbert, 28, personally prefers G-star denim … Continue reading
Fashion Commerce and Community, We the People Fashion Collective
There’s certainly no shortage of women’s clothing boutiques in Manhattan’s Lower East Side, but Vera Ng’s We the People (156 Stanton, at Suffolk) is unique because its reason for being isn’t simply to sell clothes. “Ng created We the People … Continue reading
Filed under OUR JUNK DRAWER, SARTORIAL INDULGENCES
