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Project Runway Season 16 in Review

The 16th installment of the original version of Project Runway had its finale this week, as the season ended with four fashion shows.     This season of PR was in many very different from other seasons. It started out with a twist, namely that this time around; designers would not have a “muse model” […]

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Culture Fashion History

China Fashion Week in the 1600s

When people think of the 1600s and 1700s in fashion, most people think of the amazingly heavy designs worn by Europe’s political leaders in those days. Their opulence, intricacies and details were impressive and represented a true paramount in fashion and style. Their imposing aesthetic does not allow much room for other types of expressing […]

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Culture Fashion History

Attire Club Mood Board: The History of Color Systems

A color system is a model which describes the ways in which colors relate to each other. Mostly, color systems are based on three primary colors – although in some cases there were even five primary colors, from which every other color is derived. Colors are set in relation to each other – some are […]

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Fashion Show Changes: A Comparison between the 1990s and the 2010s

Runway shows are a core part of the fashion world. They are, if we can make a comparison, like the locomotive of a train, pulling everything that comes next. The runway shows are the forefront of the fashion calendar, followed by campaigns, films and store adaptations of the presented clothes. While it may seem that […]

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A Case for the Sleeveless Button Down Shirt (B)

Why sleeveless button down shirts are a taboo Men’s shirts are one of the most important fashion items when it comes to menswear. They are a part of the classic image that composes the typically masculine suit; they make men look structured and sophisticated and they give an overall masculine and powerful vibe to the […]

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Culture Metafashion Opinion And Commentary

Peacocking and Fashion

Fashion is often criticized for being superficial and vain. People who love fashion and who wear expensive things are often seen as “peacocking”. Wearing designer clothes and having accessories from renowned brands is seen as showing off. But the reality of the matter is that there is a lot more to this phenomenon that one […]

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Culture Fashion History

AC Mood Board: Vintage Men’s Magazine Covers

Men’s magazines have always been quite a small niche in the publishing world. Just as in other fields such as clothes and cosmetics, there are by far many more women’s niches represented and in higher numbers than men’s. Today, a men’s magazine is generally understood to be either a pornographic magazine, a tech magazine or […]

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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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A Critique to Fashion and Fetishism

Fetishism in fashion is a big trend that started out a few years ago (around 2000 or so), but which has grown very much in recent years. While fashion itself is for many people a fetish, in a way a commodity fetish as Marx would put it, fetishism in fashion is an ongoing and growing […]

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Culture Fashion History

AC Mood Board: Basel Fashion in the 1630s

The town of Basel in Switzerland is known today on the international fashion scene mostly for its annual Baselworld event, which gathers the best in watchmaking from Switzerland and beyond. The event rounds up thousands of fans of luxury watches and a strong media crowd. Located at the meeting point of the German, French and […]

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Why Etiquette Is Always Relevant

What is etiquette? Throughout history, people have always had a certain code of conduct that directed the way they would act in common circumstances. This used to give people a sense of order. Etiquette was also used with the purpose of releasing people of always having to make decisions and make sense of the world […]

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Culture Fashion History

AC Mood Board: Medieval Clothed Horses

A tournament or tourney (derived from the Old French torneiement or tornei) was a chivalrous competition or mock fight that was organized in Europe in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance period (12th to 16th centuries).   Tournaments consisted of a series of mounted or armored combats in which knights competed to see whose skills […]