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"[I]t is increasingly clear that it is almost impossible to think about New York Fashion Week and what happens on the runway without thinking, to varying extents, about Mr. Trump."
"He — the world he has currently created — is the prism through which everything is seen, and evaluated. There’s just no getting away from it,&q…
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"Never will we accept in [fashion] that a judge decides if a young girl is skinny or not skinny."
"That doesn’t exist in the world, and it will certainly not exist in France." The French try to legislate against the promotion of excessi…
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Blair versus the veil.
Blair's view . The (very sympathetically presented) response . CORRECTION: Both links go to the same place, so you'll have to click within th…
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What the women wore on the convention stages.
Robin Givhan observes the fashions of various political women: It is not sexist to have noticed that Sen. Hillary Clinton delivered her convention sp…
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I'd be embarassed to talk about shame so much.
The Clinton campaign stooped so low circulating a picture of Barack Obama in African dress. The Obama camp responded with shaming: "On the very…
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"Bridal gown for sale."
A sad little homemade sign, seen today... .... between the Bounce and the bathroom:
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"I am worried. Where is India going? Now our women are fighting for their right to wear less?"
"Women cannot wear tiny clothes and go out at night and expect men to worship them. They cannot then blame the police and the government... Our …
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Charlize Theron...
... as Hasty Pudding's Woman of the Year: Photo by Boston Globe's Essdras M. Suarez. More cute pics here .
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The Oscars, Pistorius and de la Renta.
1. It was handed out strongly, for penalty and repentance: Oscar Pistorius got a 5-year sentence . 2. Oscar de la Renta, who dressed First Ladies and…
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"Shuffling phalanxes of men and women with bright orange, yellow and red Bozo feet."
Robin Givhan would like everyone to stop wearing Crocs outside of the sports milieu. There are two big fashion issues here. 1. Comfort: [T]his is a …
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The Oscars, Pistorius and de la Renta.
1. It was handed out strongly, for penalty and repentance: Oscar Pistorius got a 5-year sentence . 2. Oscar de la Renta, who dressed First Ladies and…
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"The tanned Duchess of Cambridge blew Michelle Obama out of the water."
Insane Daily Mail headline. It's supposed to relate to the fashion: For their first meeting yesterday, Kate wore a simple but stylish £175 banda…
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The tallest man in the world...
... and the shortest. Together. What difficulties in both conditions! I wonder which way is harder. But if you must be extremely and inconveniently…
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"Is a crop top empowering for girls?"
Asks a headline at WaPo — in a section of the paper called "Social Issues." Social issues . Ah, it was a social issue to me in the mid-196…
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An ambiguous headline that reveals too much about us: "Kim Kardashian's Pregnancy Fails."
The quote is a teaser, found at the bottom of another article under the "More from Our Partners" heading. I don't even see the ambiguit…
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"Yes, nothing says female empowerment like a bunch of androgynous models dressed like homeless people."
"This displays the same cognitive dissonance as all the 'feminist' fashion shows featuring models in burqas and niqabs. It's like li…
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"You could read Vera Wang's transparent wedding dress — which functions as wearable art much more than sellable merchandise..."
"... as an extreme answer to those often rather cruel tensions: What better way to criticize the constraints of the wedding industrial complex t…
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"WaPo Style Writer Declares Kennedy Old-Money Style Only Cool on Liberals."
The Weekly Standard rags on Robin Givhan.
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The perception that "unisex" fashion arrived in the 60s then went away and came back.
Here's "A Brief History of Unisex Fashion" in The Atlantic: In her new book Sex and Unisex: Fashion, Feminism, and the Sexual Revoluti…
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