Blog Archive: November 2011

Blog Archive: November 2011

Picturing Fashions Past: Fashion Histories of American Women of Color

A discussion of the digital fashion media complex, fashion shows in Japanese American internment camps and the aesthetic value of UGG boots with Minh-Ha T. Pham, founder of the blog Of Another Fashion, an online archive highlighting the oft-ignored fashion histories of American women of color. 


Something to be Thankful for: Freedom of Speech (and Calvin Klein)

Call me old-fashioned or idealistic, but there is something really touching about the Four Freedoms paintings Norman Rockwell produced during World War II. Though we live in a different political landscape today, those freedom are no less alive than they were in the 1940s.