What does it mean to be a fashion historian?
Powered by RedCircle I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what it means to be a fashion historian. Here I’m not talking about the ins and outs of the fashion …
Fashion in Focus: Non-Eurocentric Fashion History Books
This month I’m focusing on fashion history as the subject of my fashion musings. Today I’m sharing five books that might help us diversify the history of fashion.
Life Lately: October 2023
I feel like it was yesterday that I was writing last month’s roundup directly from London. And while it was only a month ago, it somehow seems like three lives …
Fashion Practices: On wearing Latinx and Indigenous fashion
One of my friends recently asked me if it is ok for her, as a white person, to wear clothes created by Latin American and Latinx designers and brands. I …
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Study guide: Indigenous fashion in Turtle Island
I’ve decided to make Indigenous fashion in Turtle Island the subject of my first series of paid content this month. Here you’ll find a sort of “annotated bibliography” that I hope will aid your inquiries into the subject.
Indigenous resistance in and through fashion
I’ve decided to use Indigenous Peoples Day and Indigenous Resistance Day as an excuse—as if I needed one—to talk just a little bit more about Indigenous fashion, especially in Latin America.
Fashion in Focus: Indigenous Fashion Scholars
Indigenous People’s Day is coming up on Monday so I’ve decided to use it as an excuse to share the work of four Indigenous fashion scholars whose work has been absolutely instrumental to my own research and thinking about fashion.
Life Lately: September 2023
September completely flew by! I find it quite hard to believe that the month is already over and, to be completely honest with you, I’m not even sure about what I did with my life for the past 4 weeks (since I wrote my last monthly roundup).
But then there have been a lot of exciting things going on in my life.
Fashion Practices: On dressing as “Latina”
Today I’m introducing the final section of the new structure of this blog/newsletter (for now). And this one really excites me because it means getting close and personal with fashion by reflecting on why I wear what I wear—and encouraging you to do the same!
Should fashion celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month?
There’s so much left to say about decolonization that I could have continued expanding on the topic today. And I indeed wanted to.
Until I realized that Hispanic Heritage Month begins on Friday.
So I have to address that subject instead, right?