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American conservatism: the designer stylist, Lauren, Klein, and Karan
American conservatism responded to the simplicity, versatility, and comfort of ready-to-wear clothing. As a nation, Americans did not have a…
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Fashioning the American Body seventh avenue, new york
Foreigners ourselves, and mostly unable to speak English, we had Americanized the system of providing clothes for the American woman…
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Martin Margiela: postmodernist deconstruction
Like Hausmann, Schwitters, Rauschenberg, and the Arte Povera artists, Margiela chose debased and abject materials and deconstructivist methodologies to draw…
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Framing Fashion: The Artists Who Made Clothes
A most difficult and unsatisfying art, because as soon as a dress is born it has already become a thing…
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The Democratization of Fashion: Machine Age Aesthetics
I am no longer interested in dressing a few hundred women, private clients; I shall dress thousands of women. Flooding…
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