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The Real Story Behind H&M’s Racist Monkey Sweatshirt

How Asian American Creatives Made NYC's Downtown Party Scene Good Again

29 Big (Fashion) Ideas For 2019

Style Out There: For Black Women, Afrofuturist Fashion Is More Th...

Afrofuturism is one of those terms that’s recently floated out of niche fandoms and entered into the mainstream, largely thanks to the mega-popularity of

These Japanese Chicanas May Challenge What You Think About Cultur...

In the 1990s, Mexican Americans in East Los Angeles found themselves a surprising fanbase 5,000 miles away. Propelled by the international popularity of lo

Love Him Or Not, Karl Lagerfeld Was A Legend In Life & In Death

His magical thinking and imagination changed fashion and won him universal acclaim. But it had its limits.

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The Curiously Millennial Problem Blindsiding Retail Workers In A...

It’s 2 p.m. on a regular summer Monday afternoon, and every store and shop on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles is packed with young people who don’t seem

What Love Means To 37 Strangers Around The World

Crazy Rich Asians

The Problem With Crazy Rich Asians Is That It’s Not Actually Abou...

It's a story about an insular group of Asians in Asia who have nothing to do with America. So, why are we treating this like a moment for Asian-Americans?

Billionaires — They’re Not Just Like Us (At Least On Instagram)

What, if anything, can we learn from the richest on the platform?

For A Silent First Lady, Melania Trump’s Jacket Sends A Clear Mes...

On Thursday, one day after her husband signed an executive order to roll back the same draconian policy of separating migrant children from their families

The Pain & Privilege Of Travelling With Anthony Bourdain

Anthony Bourdain was a chef, a writer, a TV host, and a celebrity. He taught people that brunch was a scam, that putting pen to paper is as much a noble ac

What Would Carrie, Samantha, Miranda & Charlotte Wear Today?

What’s In A Name? For Kate Spade, It Was Everything Until It Was ...

Yesterday, Katherine Noel Frances Valentine died in her apartment in Manhattan, having taken her own life. Few would know her by the name she chose for her

I’ve Written About Cultural Appropriation For 10 Years. Here’s Wh...

In attempting to make us more open to each other's communities, somehow, the opposite has happened.

The Met Got The Catholic Fashion Story Wrong

While it's true that Catholicism has had a huge influence on fashion, what The Met focused on was missing the real story.

Inside The Fake News Campaign To Smear Russia's Biggest Fashion I...

Who would go to such extraordinary lengths to purposely spread fake news about Miroslava Duma, Natalia Vodianova, and Dasha Zhukova — some of the most fa

17 Ways To Style The Humble Bandana

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Fear & Soothing: How Sunday Became A Mood You Can Buy

A few months ago, during a weekend afternoon when I was supposed to be catching up on a work assignment, I found myself online window shopping instead. Aft

Mad Max Fanatics Have Created A Burning Man Of Their Own...

Refashioning what’s broken into something new, wastelanders see a utopia in most people’s dystopia.

The Dark Side Of Harajuku You Haven't Seen Yet

How one subculture of a subculture is taking on mental health in a surprising way.

The Jewish Drag Queens Of Tel Aviv

In Tel Aviv, the drag scene has become a place where queer and gay icons tackle issues surrounding equality and justice.

Style Out There

Why You'll See These Victorian-Style European Dresses In Namibia

Every dress tells a story, but in the case of Namibia’s Herero dress, it’s a 100-year-old tale of genocide, oppression, resilience, and — hopefully ?

Can Marchesa Survive In A Post-Weinstein World?

Since the Marchesa brand first debuted in 2004, it has often been described by notable fashion critics in the exact same way: as a fairytale, for princesse

Celebrity Style

The Hubris Of Justin Timberlake's Man Of The Woods Event

If you are a major celebrity on the brink of a major world tour, you launch a merch collection. That is what Kanye West did with Life of Pablo that made go

Is Wokeness In Fashion Just Another Illusion?

Is fashion going through something like a #MeToo movement? Judging by the number of Instagram Stories denouncing style influencer and entrepreneur Miroslav

The Perils Of Using Fashion For Protest

I’m not sure where my pink pussyhat is — whether it’s in a wardrobe, flattened in a bag, or long-ago disintegrated in a landfill somewhere. However,

Celebrity Style

The No-Win Conundrum Of The Golden Globes’ #MeToo Red Carpet

For the first time in the history of red carpets, the trend of the evening will not be nude-hued dresses in mermaid hemlines. It will be black dresses, bla

If This Young Drag Queen Is The Future, We're Feeling Great About...

Awesome. Amazing. Fun! Out of all the words in the English language, these would probably not be the ones most people would use to describe the kind of yea

Victoria's Secret

The Biggest Drama During Tonight’s Victoria’s Secret Show Won’t B...

Tonight, CBS will air the 2017 Victoria’s Secret show, which was filmed one week ago in the Mercedes-Benz arena in Shanghai — the first time the show h

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