One: Outfits from a New Era at the Montreal Biosphere
Our day- to-day is filled with alluring billboards, enticing magazine adverts, and pop-up ads that beckon us straight through the pearly gates of our numerous pantheons of goods and services. We buy to no end, only to discard our new acquisitions once the initial appeal has worn off. Consumerism is undeniably the name of the game, … Read more
The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier at the MMFA
The fashion gods continue to bestow upon us intellectually stimulating fashion fare with yet another exhibition gracing the city of Montreal. The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk, presented by the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, is the latest exhibition to showcase the body of work of an esteemed … Read more
Clothing, Identity and the Case of the ‘Genderless’ Baby
As much as clothing serves as a means of identification, it is equally useful as a way to conceal, or at the very least render ambiguous one’s identity, which illustrates just how deep-seated our sartorial markers of class, gender, and identity are, and that, in spite of the changes fashion has undergone throughout the decades. … Read more
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