Fashion Statement
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Meet the Taiwanese grandparents who have become Instagram fashion sensations
When their laundry business slowed down with the pandemic, they began to post pictures of themselves wearing clothes people had left behind.
Sowmiya Ashok
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Five historic acts of fashion provocation that came long before AOC’s ‘Tax the Rich’ dress
Using fashion as a tool to address wider social concerns has long been a strategy for people seeking to make change.
Peter McNeil, The Conversation
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How Susan Sontag’s essay ‘Notes on Camp’ explains the over-the-top costumes at the Met Gala 2019
‘The essence of Camp is its love of the unnatural: of artifice and exaggeration’. And other quotes that matter from Sontag’s 1964 essay, ‘Notes on Camp’.
Scroll Staff
Trending
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Fact-checking five days of Narendra Modi’s speeches: A catalogue of lies
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Banana republic in the making?: A South Asian perspective on India from Kathmandu
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Uttarakhand restricts sale of land for agriculture as locals protest tourism infrastructure boom
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Expelled BJP Minority Morcha leader Usman Ghani arrested in Rajasthan
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By mixing Carnatic and Hindustani, Mysore’s kings helped create a unique body of music
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Why the Met Gala couldn’t truly have been camp (even if it tried)
Many of the gowns and costumes at this year’s Met Gala attempted to capture the essence of camp, and in trying to do so missed the point of camp entirely.
Mathew Sini, The Conversation
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Video: A Congolese fashion designer is spreading safe sex awareness with clothes made of condoms
In a bid to educate people about HIV/AIDS, the 40-year old Felicite Luwungu has created an entire collection of condom clothes.
Reuters
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Black on the red carpet: Protest at Golden Globes against sexual harassment divides Hollywood
Actress Rose McGowan and activist April Reign decry the decision to dress in black for the awards ceremony as superficial.
Scroll Staff
Video
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Watch: K-Pop singer Aoora sings in Assamese as he collaborates with Nilotpal Bora in a new folk song
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Watch Anu Malik and Sonu Nigam’s impromptu performance of ‘Main Hoon Na’ at Farah Khan’s home
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Watch: Doordarshan newsreader faints on live TV in Kolkata owing to severe heat
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Watch: Spice Girls sing ‘Stop’ as bandmates reunite to celebrate Victoria Beckham’s 50th birthday
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Watch: Over 350 ballerinas come together to break the world record for standing on tip toes
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Six start-ups that let you wear Sabyasachi or Ralph Lauren clothes without actually buying them
The market for online clothing rental is catching on slowly in India.
Eartha
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Fashion’s closed circuit opens up and goes global – next stop cyberspace
Fashion weeks are becoming less about fashion cliques, and opening up to the masses.
Anthony Kent, The Conversation
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Bollywood on the Cannes red carpet: What worked, what didn’t, and what we need to be doing
The famed film festival is an opportunity to start a conversation about Indian fashion and style.
Chinmayee Manjunath
The Reel
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Aditi Rao Hydari on playing diverse characters: ‘I want the audience to take me home with them’
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The story of India’s unique ‘Milk Revolution’ is going to the Cannes Film Festival
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The story behind the ‘Kuch Kuch Hota Hai’ title track: ‘Just write very simple poetry’
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‘Juna Furniture’ review: A simplistic crusade against the neglect of senior citizens
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‘Late Night with the Devil’ review: A deft satire on the price of success