Tag Archives: photography
Shadi Ghadirian and the Arts of Time Travel
How fortuitous that the day after Mimi posts her interview with Junaid Rana on the politics of Muslim dress, this image shows up in my Tumblr feed, by way of a l’allure garconniere and Colorlines: This is just one of … Continue reading
Japanese American Women, Interned
Thinking about encampment and incarceration in the long history of US empire; racialization and its effects on individuals who “resemble their crime before they commit it;” dress and beauty as forms of discipline and control, as uncertain signs about an … Continue reading
Thai-Cong’s MY PARENTS: An Homage to Fashion, Photography, and Life
German Vietnamese stylist and interior designer Thai-Cong Quach’s My Parents (2002) is a collection of portraits of his mother and father, Lang Leona Le (57) and Huu Thanh Quach (93). Each portrait is a collaboration between the son as stylist, … Continue reading
Filed under ON BEAUTY
In Vintage Color
There is a lot to appreciate about Fashion for Writers‘s Meggy Wang, like her recent conversation with her new collaborator Jenny Z on “overdressing.” But one of the things I appreciate the most is how her outfit posts might be … Continue reading
Filed under FASHIONING RACE, ON BEAUTY, VINTAGE POLITICS
PICTURING POLITICS: On “Pride In His Work”
This past Monday, in what brings nothing less than Driving Miss Daisy most prominently to mind, the Sartorialist posted a photograph from his book tour, featuring his (unnamed) driver in San Francisco. In his commentary, the Sartorialist remarks: “As you … Continue reading
Filed under FASHIONING RACE, STYLE POLICE & STYLE GURUS
Things I’ve Learned From Students #34: Nontsikelelo Veleko
One of my former students, Janel B., sent me to this post called “Don’t Sleep on Africa” on the fashionable Livejournal community called black cigarette, and thereby introducing me to, among others, South African photographer Nontsikelelo Veleko and her amazing … Continue reading
Filed under IN THE CLASSROOM
Tramp Chic and the Photograph
We couldn’t not comment on the most recent entry in “homeless chic” by Scott Schumann, the Sartorialist, who shot and published this photograph of what Black Book calls a “surprisingly stylish homeless man” as Schumann ambled past him in the … Continue reading
Filed under FASHIONING RACE, FASHIONING THE HUMAN, ON BEAUTY
Oops, They Did It Again!
Make Fetch Happen caught this photograph in an editorial for the latest Vogue Italia, months after the much-celebrated Black Issue. In this familiar racial distribution of feminine domesticity, the model is of course unnamed in her role as the archetypical … Continue reading
Filed under FASHIONING RACE, ON BEAUTY
Background Color, Redux II
Today I rejected a comment on the entry Background Color for its sneering hostility. In short, the author of the comment called us stupid, too preoccupied with Gucci (as if) to know anything about art (which fashion, the author asserted … Continue reading
Filed under FASHIONING RACE
Background Color, Redux
I’ve been pleasantly buoyed by the great responses to my original entry on the Beth Ditto NYLON editorial. Today it’s being republished on Racialicious, but meanwhile Fatshionista and other blogs belonging to fashionable and fabulous people have also penned some … Continue reading
Filed under FASHIONING RACE
