Fashion

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Travelers Attire: Crafting Your Personalized Journey Hoodie

Comfort is a crucial factor in travel experiences. Explorers dedicate hours to traversing through different modes of transportation, immersing themselves in new locales.…

April 24, 2024

Skinny People & Oversized Jeans: Trendy or Entitled?

Emily Diaz, DePaul University

Popular TikTok fashion trends like wearing extremely oversized clothing make plus-sized clothes inaccessible, but also shames plus-size people for their bodies.…

April 10, 2024

Two androgynous models posing in fashion show.

New York Fashion Week’s Push Towards Androgynous Modeling

Emily Diaz, DePaul University

High fashion is more than outlandish costumes and funky attire- in fact, it has become a social movement towards accepting androgyny through fabric.…

March 11, 2024

An exchange of commerce is depicted at the center of a noxious cloud -- a hand offering a credit card for a pair of heels against a purple background of twisting lines. The image towers over rows red desks, dark figures sitting at them, ominously overshadowed by the product they labored over for someone else.

Dutch Colonialism in Southeast Asia was Always a Humanitarian Crisis

Vera Pavlovich, Loyola University Maryland

Colonialism is not a thing of the past; rather, its facets have evolved into industries like fast fashion.…

March 1, 2024

Back to the Future: The 80’s Influence on Today’s Trends

Christine Bardos, Santa Clara University

Claw clips and bodysuits and blazers, oh my! 80s trends have yet to fizzle out in society, and here’s why. …

January 4, 2024

The Grit, Glam and Mess of Lady Gaga’s ‘ARTPOP,”’ 10 Years Later

Avery Heeringa, Columbia College Chicago

Exploring Gaga’s commercial “failure” by going “behind the burqa" a decade after its release. …

December 6, 2023

Welcome to the Renaissance: 5 Things We Hope to See in the Renaissance World Tour Movie

Paiton Young, University of Georgia

It’s awe-inspiring how Beyoncé motivates her fans to come in costume and participate in her events, setting trends even when fans are unsure of the reason for the specific color or theme requests.…

November 21, 2023