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Fashion and Historical Memory

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On December 21, 2025
While fashion is not exactly my forte, historical memory is. And I am interesting in how ideas of fashion became ways of representing the past, often papering over the reality for nice easy visions of a past with better dresses and suits than the present....
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Beyoncé's debut performance as the first black woman headliner at the predominantly all-white pricey music festival Coachella has made history for mainstream music in America. It racked up an impressive amount of press thanks to social media reactions by celebrities and "regular" people and set...
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Just here to remind you that everything has pretty much always been terrible: In 1814, a company in Schweinfurt, Germany, called the Wilhelm Dye and White Lead Company developed a new green dye. It was brighter than most traditional green dyes. It was bolder. The...

Slow Fashion?

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On December 11, 2015

In case you thought the Slow Food movement wasn't white and elite and privileged enough, we now have the Slow Fashion movement. So why not slow clothing? That’s what then-33-year-old.

Nail Salons

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On May 14, 2015

You probably read Sarah Maslin Nir's excellent investigative report on the labor conditions inside New York nail salons, which are brutal and including wage theft, poisoning from breathing in cosmetics,.

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