My attention was drawn this week to an article on the resurgence of the market for men’s underwear. It claimed that men’s underwear is becoming a real “growth category” for the fashion industry, with design innovation coupled with celebrity endorsement (particularly by sportsmen) creating a bigger market. The idea is that, if you can say ...
You know the saying “It’s not the journey, it’s the destination?” Well, my hair story is a journey. A journey of self-discovery. I know what you might be thinking. What the hell kind of First World feminist, skewed self-awareness and failed attempt at philosophy is that? This piece is about much more than hair. It’s ...
Is romance dead? You would think so from seeing the prolific over-sexualization of women in music videos and gratuitous sex scenes on television and film. Rihanna, Lady Gaga, Madonna, Beyoncé and Jennifer Lopez are only a few artists out of many that come to mind when I think of songstresses whose fashion motto is “barely ...
Considering the first episode of Pan Am involved a flight attendant (Laura, The Clever One) being recruited to work for the CIA, I hoped for lots of deconstruction of Cold War propaganda and such like. No luck. Kate (The Pretty One) runs away from her wedding in a less-than-compelling flashback sequence. This is meant to ...
Whiteness has always intrigued me. I have experienced several instances throughout my life where I yearned to “be white.” The books I read and the people I watched in films, movies and television shows as a child in Singapore were mostly white — not many looked or lived like I did. I was enraptured by the ...
Robin Hood, David Bowie and Mick Jagger are three men who really knew how to wear tights and, although a questionable trend at first, it became kind of hot (remember Bowie’s bulging member in Labyrinth?). But if you have to stop and ponder whether you want to see men in tights outside the world of ballet, how ...
Fashion is famously cyclical. It all comes back around again sometime. Yet sometimes you look back and wonder how we went from Victorian floor-length gowns to short flapper dresses; how flowy hippie garb tightened up to 80s power suits; what on earth the 90s were hoping to accomplish. All will be explained, in time. I ...
You don’t have to signal a social conscience by looking like a frump. Lace knickers won’t hasten the holocaust, you can ban the bomb in a feather boa just as well as without, and a mild interest in the length of hemlines doesn’t necessarily disqualify you from reading Das Kapital and agreeing with every word. ...
It’s been acceptable for women to wear pants since the 1960s, but girlie girls still prefer dresses. If you’re a woman and you opt for a pantsuit over a dress, you must have your Xs and Ys crossed. Things only get worse if you’re in a position of power. Hilary Clinton wore a pantsuit when ...
Mothers may have a hand in shaping their kids’ values, beliefs and even pass down behavioural traits, but their daughters are paving the way in the style department. In what’s termed the “consumer doppleganger effect,” moms are keeping on top of trends by looking to their daughters for “fashion and beauty inspiration,” according to a ...
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My attention was drawn this week to an article on the resurgence of the market for men’s underwear. It...
