Intersecting Fashion and Culture in Death: Cloth Beyond the Grave
French philosopher Albert Camus said, “Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authen...
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Tabii Just No Waste Workshop with Tabitha St. Bernard-Jacobs
Last week, our class had the pleasure of having Tabitha of Tabii Just (a zero-waste, sustainable fashion brand) in house as we all embarked on a mission to conc...
Ethnographic Research in Hoboken & Manhatten
When I was walking to work, I was completed stopped, dead in my tracks, when I saw some silver disco heels. It turns out, a customer going into Anthropologie, i...
Eco and Stallybrass in Decoding the Meaning of Clothing
Both Umberto Eco and Peter Stallybrass, through different perspectives, capture how clothes go beyond the idea of objects to become symbols of past and present ...
Tabii Just: Tabitha St. Bernard Workshop
(Copyright for the first image, as part of Tabitha’s collection is here.) For the CUNY Graduate students, we had the pleasure of meeting Zerowaste womensw...
Fashion, Technology, and Everything in Between
In reference to last week’s class, I was compelled by the discussion on digital work, technology, and machinery in relation to hand-made items. Then there...
