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What will Serena wear next? Sport and fashion at the Australian Open

Serena Williams creates a stir in the crowd. There is a buzz in the stadium as she is expected to emerge from the rooms out to the net. The excitement is not related to her skill, talent or professionalism: it’s about what she’ll wear next. Tennis has shifted. What used to be an elite sport [...]
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Retro Redux: The past is another country

“The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there,” wrote LP Hartley in The Go-Between, published in 1953. That’s something that the craze for retro has conveniently forgotten. Like victors rewriting history, Retro Lovers have taken out the bad bits, and given us a past that is entirely about high-waisted, two-piece bathing suits, [...]
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Exhibitions…fashion’s emerging voice?

When most people think fashion, they perhaps conjure up images of glamorous models strutting down a runway. But the rise of the fashion exhibition has opened new avenues for designers looking to push beyond fashion conventions. The expansion of design practices over the past 10 years has witnessed the increasing use of the exhibition as [...]
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