To explain the entirety of who André Leon Talley is could take centuries. If one were going to describe him in short form, you could call him a fashion industry tastemaker; that's exactly what "The Gospel According To André" does. It did a wonderful job of displaying André's taste and persona in all of…
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House of Schiaparelli headpiece. Photo © Manic Metallic 2019 Camp is an indefinable fashion concept. The 2019 Met Costume Institute spring exhibition sought to define it somewhat, which is no small task. Enter Susan Sontag. As a writer, she took on the herculean task of doing this in 1964; her work "Notes On 'Camp'"…
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Icon (n): "A person or thing regarded as a representative symbol or as worthy of veneration." To answer this question, we have to first understand what an icon is. To paraphrase the definition stated above, an icon is 'a person or thing regarded as symbolically worthy of adoration.' A fashion icon, then, could be…
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What do you think when you hear the magazine title “Vogue”? A fashion magazine with a great and storied history? The pinnacle of the fashion industry? A publication with very expensive items that cater to a certain crowd? An advertising spectacle plastered with a monthly celebrity on the cover? Maybe the question that we…
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