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Category Archives: Fashion
Decoding Anna Wintour
Anna Wintour operates as the ultimate coordination point in a global prestige game. According to David Pinsof, humans seek to coordinate their attention on a single authority to avoid social chaos and conflict. Wintour serves this role for the fashion … Continue reading
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Decoding The Devil Wears Prada
The Devil Wears Prada 2 has a scheduled release date of May 1, 2026. Meryl Streep returns as Miranda Priestly, the character widely understood as a fictional version of Anna Wintour. Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, and Stanley Tucci also reprise … Continue reading
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Pricing Beauty: The Making of a Fashion Model
Ashley Mears writes in this 2011 book: * They are now so unrepresentative of the everyday woman that they are considered offensive. They are far too young and slender, wearing a size zero and having dangerously low body mass indexes … Continue reading
If Fashion Writers Wrote History
From the blog Just Not Said: Benito makes a bold statement in a cap with red braid and a beautiful gold-plated representation of an iron eagle. The bird matches his epaulets, gold buttons, and the eagle on his arm perfectly, … Continue reading
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Vogue Hails Orthodox Fashion as Fall’s ‘Sexiest Trend’
Forward: The traditional sexy slip dress for Orthodox women is getting a modern, yet still modest, upgrade that’s bringing it out to the streets, and to the top design house runways. It is almost 2016, after all. Vogue reports that … Continue reading