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Why Are There No It-Boys?

An it-girl is a woman who is an image that many people in a certain group or society hold as an ideal. It-girls are famous ladies who are taking social media by storm and who publicize what they do, who they meet and what they wear so that others find inspiration in them. It can […]

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Culture Fashion Editorials Opinion And Commentary

Rebranding the Fashion System

Over the last years, there have been a lot of discussions in the fashion world on creating a new fashion system. According to giants like Lidewij Edelkoort, the fashion system as we know it is “obsolete” and needs a reconfiguration. For many people like Li Edelkoort, the image that represents the fashion of today is […]

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Fashion Editorials Style

Rebranding Yourself in the New Year

2018 is speeding toward us and will be hear in no time, which doesn’t just mean you’ve got to start your NYE plans, but also begin thinking about how you wish to present yourself in the new year. With every passing year, we get the chance to reinvent ourselves and try out new things. Of […]

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The Top Three Highly Misused Fashion Terms

The fashion world is a universe that has its own vocabulary and language. There are many terms that are specific to fashion and style, there are many references known mostly by the insiders, but there are a lot of misconceptions as well. In fact, there are some terms that are used too often in the […]

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Culture Fashion Editorials

Should the Meaning of Menswear Be Redefined?

Recent collections have presented many clothes that challenge the classic notions of gender and fashion. In other words, we have seen during many men’s fashion shows models walk down the runway dressed in extremely feminine attire. Sometimes, even in dresses. This phenomenon is not extremely surprising; in recent years many people especially in the Western […]

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Culture Fashion Editorials

What Differentiates Luxury Goods?

Luxury everything The world of luxury brands and goods is a very big world, in terms of numbers and market value, as well as in terms of cultural relevance: luxury goods set trends, they have an extremely high importance for many consumers and they drive innovation and progress. Despite this, the luxury world is quite […]

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Culture Fashion Editorials

The Double Meaning of Androgyny in Fashion

In recent years, many designers, muses and stylists have worked with the concept of androgyny in their fashion campaigns, artworks or blogs. The media landscape, as well as the advertising landscape and the runway shows of today are full of androgynous looks. While to many people it may seem obvious what androgyny is, the term […]

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Five Fashion Items You Can Splurge On

Fashion doesn’t just come in different patterns, colors and cuts. There are tons of options available in a variety of prices – you can find anything you want with a lavish price tag or shop for things stunningly cheap. Buying things in a different price range can sometimes mean different outcomes in terms of quality, […]

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Culture Fashion Editorials Opinion And Commentary

Hopes for Fashion

There are many discussions today about the changes that are going on in the fashion world. The advent of new means of communication and the rapid change in technology we’ve seen over the last 17 years has marked many aspects of culture, including fashion. In this time, fashion blogging has become a very important part […]

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Corporate Fashion Culture Fashion Editorials

Men’s Clothes as Status

Fashion has many meanings in society. It conveys identity, personality, group belonging and more. Clothing can be political and it can be art. One of the things that clothing almost always is is a symbol of social status.     Social status is defined as “a person’s standing or importance in relation to other people […]

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Fashion Forward: Keywords of 2016. Where to Next?

Fashion is all about what is going to happen tomorrow and what will be cool tomorrow. To discover what will be “in” in the near or far future, one can always look back, as “you can’t really have a future without having a past”. We have put together a guide of the main fashion keywords […]

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Culture Fashion Editorials Fashion History

From Italian Sprezzatura to Being Cool

When you see someone or something and describe it as “cool”, this usually is a gut reaction and is based more on instinct than on thought or analysis. Naming something “cool” is an instinctive reaction and can be quite hard to articulate why or how something is cool. Even though “being cool” has a lot […]