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Category / Fashion for Dummies

A French Girl’s Search for the Meaning of Hipster

You know there’s something seriously wrong with a generation when most of us don’t want to admit what we basically just are. Whether extreme or moderate, hippies were proud of being hippies, punks were proud of being punks, but hipsters?! Well how very dare you call us hipsters! A French ex-pat living in New…

The Misunderstood Nomadic Women who Danced Their Way to Liberation

Centuries before Betty Friedan and the sexual revolution challenged social mores in the West, the women of the Ouled Nail in Algeria enjoyed the freedom to earn their own fortunes, choose lovers and engage in sexual relationships outside of marriage in a society that placed no shame on these choices – and indeed valued these…

Paris Fashion Week for Dummies (VIDEO)

You didn’t expect Paris fashion week to go by without MessyNessy getting in on the action, did ya? Nessy and her pal Kath went down to the Jardin des Tuileries for the Viktor & Rolf show to get a better understanding of the street style and ‘fashionista’ culture that has become such an integral part…

The Tale of the 1970s Fashion Apocalypse

Because seriously, what were they thinking? The earliest signs of infection: People standing around in spread eagle pose, looking upwards. Soon men started hanging out together in tight, colorful underpants: One word people: EUROPANTS. Nothing made sense anymore… Oh so that’s why nothing is happening … I’m not wearing Eleganza. Men in shiny shirts began…

1970s Fashion: London Reacts to the Platform Shoe

More evidence of the fashion apocalypse that was the 1970s! “I don’t know what they do to your feet but the manufacturers and the fashion editors say, ‘Not to worry, they look great‘”. (This must be how the brainwashing started). A vintage documentary from the archives of British Pathé, rounded up some Londoners for a…

Nigeria Fashion Week: Way Less Boring than normal Fashion Week

Anyone else had enough of the same old fashion week news coverage? A web series from VICE is here to save the day. Hosted by quirky Brit presenter, Charlet Dubac, the series called Fashion Internationale follows various non-mainstream fashion weeks around the world. So let’s escape all that pretentious fashion week coverage and take a…

Vintage Spanx! Before & After

Before Spanx, there was the girdle (not to be confused with the corset). The buttock, stomach, thigh and torso-slimming garment was worn by just about every woman until the 1960s and was cleverly advertised using all types of tactics including before & afters photographs and peer pressure. The trickeries of the before & after format…

How they did it: The Bubble Girl in Paris, 1963

“Just admit that it’s Photoshop”, people tell fashion photographer Melvin Sokolsky when looking at his iconic photograph of model Simone D’Aillencourt landing in a glass bubble on the River Seine in Paris. “But it was 1963,” says Melvin who designed the bubble for the surreal Harper’s Bazaar magazine spring shoot. The plexiglass bubble was hung…

15 Fashion Trends of the Past that Today’s Designers haven’t Copied … Yet

Fashion tends to repeat itself … a lot. In fact sometimes it’s seems that is all it does is ‘borrow’ from another decade, another era. But let’s take a gander at some very interesting styles that today’s designers haven’t yet sent down the catwalk…. 1. Embroidered Knee Highs Knee highs were like, so hot in…

The Armored Armani: How to look Stylish while you’re being Shot At

You may insist on the finest tailoring from Italy, the latest designs from Paris, but there’s no reason why your most elegant evening attire shouldn’t be bulletproofed from Columbia. He calls himself ‘the Armored Armani’, which sounds like a spoof film title, but we’ll go with it. Miguel Caballero is a fashion-conscious bulletproof tailor with…

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