Smooche: The Brand Behind the Viral One-Shade Foundation
Smooche: The Beauty Brand Behind the Viral Peel-Off Lip Stain and One-Shade Foundation Every few years a beauty brand arrives that people discover through…
Does Fashion Design Actually Qualify for Copyright Protection
Ask ten design students whether their sketch is copyrighted the moment they draw it, and most will say yes. Ask whether the finished garment…
Resale is Growing Faster than Retail
A luxury handbag doesn’t necessarily become less valuable once it leaves the boutique. Sometimes, the exact opposite happens. A bag bought years ago can…
The Death of Vintage: How Dupes and Fast Fashion Erase Unique Identity in an Unequal Market
Identify yourself in ideals. If you could be anyone in the world, who would it be? Look no further because whatever your answer is,…
The AI Act: Should AI-Generated Fashion Images Come With a Label?
Fashion has always had a complicated relationship with reality. Campaigns are retouched, locations are constructed, lighting is manipulated, and sometimes, the entire world presented…
Fashion Lookbook of the French Bourbon Consorts: Before the French Revolution- The Baroque Period and Early Rococo Era.
Bonjour Mesdames et Messieurs, bienvenue dans la période baroque et au début de l’ère rococo de l’histoire de la mode française. In other words:…
The Fashion Act, Explained Simply
New York has tried three times since 2022 to pass the Fashion Sustainability and Social Accountability Act, known simply as the Fashion Act, and…
The Diamond Already Fell. Leather Is Next.
Or so the argument goes. The evidence is more interesting than that, and considerably less comfortable for everyone involved. The case is usually put…
Lakshmi Maxxing: When Traditions Become the Internet’s New Wellness Aesthetic
The wellness internet has a new fixation, and its name is “Lakshmi maxxing.” Borrowing its language from the internet’s obsession with “maxxing” or optimising…
Is There Anti-Intellectualism in Fashion?
A video essay about a vocabulary war on BookTok kept me up later than I want to admit, and it left me asking a…