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Discover the January 2024 Cover of the InCompany by Attire Club Magazine!

The newest cover of InCompany by Attire Club was just released in November 2024 and the magazine is available as of late December! In this edition, the cover spotlights the idea of trios, delving into their intriguing symbolism. We explore the dynamic balance, functionality, completeness, challenges and growth, representation of forces, symbolic roles, and narrative […]

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Style

How to Make a Fashion Statement by Tapping into Your Cultural Heritage

Fashion is very personal, showing the world who you are in just a few yards of fabric. The subject of cultural appropriation within the fashion industry is rightly a hot topic at the moment. But encouraging the expression of cultures is also important, especially when so many cultures have been stifled. So, tap into your […]

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Culture Fashion History

Did You Know…? 18 Fascinating Fashion Curiosities

Fashion is a fascinating field. The history of fashion and the resulting culture are extremely interesting and contain many oddities that one may not necessarily expect. Here is a list of 18 fascinating fashion curiosities that will make you be surprised, giggle and raise an eyebrow.   #1 The world’s longest wedding dress had a […]

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Culture Fashion History

AC Mood Board: Amazing Fashions from the Schembart Carnival (1590)

The Schembart Carnival (lit. bearded-mask carnival) began in 1499 in Nuremberg, Germany. Soon after, it became very popular and a strong draw until 1539, when it ended. The event was canceled due to the complaints of a preacher who had a strong influence in the community. Osiander was offended by the fact that his effigy […]

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Culture Fashion History

Attire Club Mood Board: Fashion & Costumes from the British Library’s Mechanical Curator

The Mechanical Curator of the British Library is a tool that was designed to extract images from old books that have been digitized. The software was created a few years ago and, soon after it was put to work, it has extracted over 1 million images. These images feature everything and anything from maps and […]

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Culture Opinion And Commentary

How to Analyze Fashion

You don’t have to be a fashion expert to enjoy fashion. Watching runway shows and collections can be a great hobby and passion. Many people are really taken by the idea of communicating ideas and notions through clothes but don’t really have a framework on how to go about interpreting and understanding fashion. Experienced essay […]

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Culture

Fashion and Cultural Education

In fashion, the concept of “cultural reference” is a very common one. Almost every other collection, especially these days, references an old culture or takes inspiration from traditions and established aesthetics. Thus, when one learns about fashion and style, it is extremely important to learn about visual culture and to make sure that one adds […]

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Culture Fashion History

Attire Club Mood Board: Over-the-Top 18th Century Styles

The 18th century saw the peak of the Age of Enlightenment. This was focused very much on reason (in various forms, some of which we don’t really use today), but also on values such as liberty, progress, tolerance, fraternity and more. These values were all based on the (re)discovered idea that humans had power over […]

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In Their Own Words InCompany by Attire Club Magazine Interviews and Features

John-Mikaël Flaux: Art at Full Throttle

John-Mikaël Flaux is a French créateur horloger. Orginially from the Northwest of France, he pursued his watchmaking studies for 6 years, two of which at the Edgard Faure school in Morteau, near the Swiss border. Afterwards, he worked for a while for Ulysse Nardin, but soon enough decided to make a big step and launch […]

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Culture Fashion History

The History of Color: The 1930s

When analyzing the history of fashion and art, one will discover that each period of time had a specific color palette that was strongly tied to the events of those times and, of course, to the mentalities those events created.     The 1930s were in many ways a decade marked by troubled spirits and […]

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Culture Fashion Editorials Metafashion

Own Your Masculinity

Recently, Dolce and Gabbana released a new fragrance for men. The perfume, called K was announced through a strong ad campaign featuring InCompany by Attire Club cover star Mariano Di Vaio. The video, set on the Bandini remix of Ennio Morricone’s L’Estasi dell’Oro (The Ecstasy of Gold) from Sergio Leone’s film The Good, the Bad and […]

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Culture Fashion Editorials

The Value of Things

William Butler Yeats said that “We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.” This simple idea is, if looked at with a magnifying glass, a really profound view into our nature as humans, which, in today’s world is for many lost. In the past, it was clear that […]