Human rights after Rana Plaza & The Continuous Fight for #Transparency
Walking along the Hudson River, on the very edge of the city of Hoboken, my friend and I were enjoying the night sky after work when she said she missed looking...
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“Dirty Fashion” Op-Ed Article
Carolyn J Cei
Fabric of Cultures: Memories
The essay I chose to discuss is Clothing and Memory by Iris Finkel. Iris and I were in class together for the fall 2016 semester. After reading, Peter Stallybra...
Wardrobe Memories
L.Gomezdelatorre Reading the book “Craft of Use” by Kate Fletcher made me think about the strong emotional attachment that I have developed toward some of my cl...
Fashion aide-mémoires
I often ask myself this rather rhetorical question: How random is this? I remember the time when I was a little girl and my grandma used to show me the old post...
“Understand them – demand them less”: Understanding Ownership and Value
When does ownership transfer from owner to object? To explore this question, I engage a story about one of the oldest pieces of clothing I have, that I bought a...
The Wearer, the Worn, and the Conscious
As a former classmate of mine, and someone I consider an influence in my classes, Chy Sprauve’s “Dress(ing) as Self-Help: Power, Aesthetics, + Pedagogy” is stil...
The “New” Technology in “New” Fashion
Science, Technology, and New Fashion: What is “New” Fashion? To be argumentative, fashion is never really new, as Sandy Black says herself in the introduction, ...
A T-shirt transformed
The T-shirt, a short-sleeved round-neck white one with a graphic on the front is the one that I chose to use for this project. I bought it in a small village my...
Ethnography
Clara Ferrara MALS-71200 Prof. Paulicelli Ethnography Ethnography is the study of society and cultures. The studies are conducted in research sites. Through eth...
