Fashion

Dress lies at the margins of the body and marks the boundary between self and other, individual and society. This boundary is intimate and personal...

Landscapes change. Virgin forests are cut down and turned into wheat fields and pasturelands; contaminated swamps are drained to become fertile lands; impressive dams in...

The dominant position in feminist studies exemplified by scholars such as Susan Bordo (1997) claims that consumer culture oppresses women by holding them to impossible...

The contemporary question that I shall discuss at this symposium may be articulated simply as follows: “What education, knowledge and pedagogy for what purpose in...

In order to better understand the process involved in producing electrical power by nuclear fission plants, we should review some fundamentals. An atom is the...

Select the ‘flat’ body block or the ‘flat’ shirt block for the kimono adaptation (depends on fit required). Extend to dress length if required. The...

Perhaps the most influential approach towards the study of fashion within the social sciences has been that associated with writers such as Veblen, Simmel and,...

This is the greeting given to telephone callers to Diesel Industries HQ in Molvena, Italy. Diesel makes no secret of its globalising philosophy: its founder,...

A popular comic feature of Hindi movies is to have a hero appearing dressed as a woman. This is usually at some point in the...

Ailsa Falconer is Edinburgh’s Inspiring Capital City Region brand manager. She is the first brand manager the city has employed in its long and august...