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'” was used in part as the basis for this…
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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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