Keeping Time with Fashion
As we near the end of the semester and prepare for the new year, I feel like a chapter is closing. However, looking solely at the fashion industry, one would no...
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Fashioning Utopia
Do you know that feeling when you get home from a long day at work and change into comfortable clothes, that feeling of your whole body sighing with relief? Or,...
Revolutionary Beauty
On Beauty and Being Just by Elain Scarry is a meditation on the meaning and usefulness of beauty for everyone. I use her definitions of beauty, as well as my ow...
The Absence of Beauty: Class Project 1
There is a certain beauty that I miss, a beauty that has called to me since early this year. This has been a reflective year for many reasons: death, anniversar...
A Visit to Parsons Textiles Studio with Professor Gopinath
As New York prepared to kick off fashion week, students in Archaeology of Media: Film, Fashion, Montage, a combined Graduate Center and Parsons course, visited ...
care + repair: everything you own is handmade by c. zimmerman
A bevy of samples, bits of clothes, scissors and needles covered the desk at the front of the classroom and Professor and crafter Kat Roberts began to sp...
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...
“Dirty Fashion” Op-Ed Article
Carolyn J Cei
