All tagged Industry

Fashioning the Public Sphere, Pt. 1

One way to assess and try to understand the freedom of thought that any society enjoys, protects, and promotes is to determine how robust its public sphere is. Read along as Osman Nemli asks: Where would fashion come into the conversation addressing freedom of thought within society?

The Ruth Finley Collection

As a fashion and textile historian who works closely with the Fashion Calendar archive, I am exceedingly privileged to not only have access to a previously un-investigated source that is so rich with information, but to be able to interact with the maker of the archive herself. This enables the archive to be continuously dynamic, since Finley’s knowledge about American fashion history is vast and mostly based on experience.