Korean American cartoonist Derek Kirk Kim has made a mini-documentary about writer Raina Lee and her Infinite Garage Project! As I mentioned previously, Lee offers a snapshot of a world of histories that are both materially accessible but perhaps also cosmologically impossible — she cannot know, that is, what each item in her parents’ numerous collections might have meant to them. As she documents an ever-expanding network of found objects and attached feelings, I am perhaps most struck by the clothes that once were worn and warmed by her mother’s body, and into which Lee breathes new life (a “then” and “now” pictured in some of the entries under “Fashion Friday”).
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Threadbared RSS- ICYMI: A Case for Inappropriate Conversations About Fashion
- “Asian Americans in Fashion” on CUNY TV
- Why Fashion Should Stop Trying to be Diverse
- The Techno-Orientalist, White Feminist History of “Harem Pants”
- Meet the Burka Avenger!
- Deja Vu
- What Can a Discussion About Fashion Tell Us About America’s Culture of Violence? A Lot.
- INTERVIEW: Tanisha C. Ford, Haute Couture Intellectual
- OF ANOTHER FASHION Tote Bag and Giveaway
- EXHIBITION: Tattered and Torn
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