This must be the first filmed fashion show in sound, Kitty Gordon’s fashion show from 1928. Fascinating.
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This odd editorial in Bloomberg requires a discussion. Basically, it explores the problem of fast fashion and particularly its environmental impact. Fair enough, these are problems. But the framing is
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 i
A silly men’s rights activist holiday is my excuse to post photos of men slaying it in dresses and heels. Yesterday was International Men’s Day, mostly according to people who have a bone to pick with feminism. They start you off with talking about men’s mental health and suicide rates, which are indeed much higher, […]
Tonight’s film takes us all the way ahead to 1936, where some British guy narrates how women should wear their make-up. Thus endeth your LGM fashion tip of the day.
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 wa
OMG, I HAVE TO OWN THIS EL CHAPO COAT! I’m a little disappointed that the U.S. and Mexico haven’t started a new era of relations with a trade. You extradite El Chapo to us. We extradite Sean Penn to you. It’s brilliant. The problem may be that Mexico does not want to bring such a […]
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 weaving t
Let’s say you care about the exploitation of nail salon workers. Rather than just decide to change your habits and not get your nails done or do them yourself, which does nothing to alleviate th
The worst kind of liberalism is responding to a story of oppression by deciding to do your own nails instead of going to a nail salon so you as a consumer can feel guilt-free. Never mind that such an action actually takes money out of a worker’s pocket. It’s not about changing the system or […]
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 co
I tend to believe that events have their roots in structural causes rather than the actions of a single individual. And I confess to not thinking too much about nail salons. But who knows, maybe the a