Tag Archives: ethical fashion
LINKAGE: Healthy Nails, Ethical Fashion
Beauty is so often classified as a health concern –consider the layout of drugstore aisles, after all– but just as often there is little to no awareness of unhealthy conditions for the industry’s laborers. That’s where the California Healthy Nail … Continue reading
When Morals and Market Collude: Fashion’s Night Out
On September 10, New York City and thirteen other fashion capitals around the world from the UK to Japan will host “Fashion’s Night Out: A Global Celebration of Fashion.” In New York City, the event is sponsored by Vogue magazine, … Continue reading
Filed under DEMOCRATIZATION OF FASHION
LINKAGE: Burqas, Gay Taxes, Fatshion, and More
In a guest column at Muslimah Media Watch, Alison McCarthy examines former Vanity Fair editor Tina Brown’s recent claims that Obama sequesters Secretary of State Hilary Clinton under an imaginary burqa. Also from Muslimah Media Watch, Reuters found just 367 … Continue reading
Filed under HIJAB POLITICS, LINKAGE
TEACHING: Video Killed the Lecture
Just a quick update to bookmark a couple videos here for possible inclusion in my fall course on the transnational politics of clothing and fashion. First up, a 2001 undergraduate student documentary (by Anmol Chaddha, Naomi Iwasaki, Sonya Zehra Mehta, … Continue reading
Filed under HIJAB POLITICS, IN THE CLASSROOM
