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
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Suspended Congress leader from Surat resurfaces after 20 days, alleges party betrayed him
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These innovations have made Amrik Sukhdev Dhaba in Murthal the truck drivers’ favourite since 1967
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Thriller: A serial killer is on the loose, murdering India’s famous nuclear scientists one by one
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Why even those who don’t believe in deities love bhakti poetry
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Why some Kashmiris who spurned ballot in the past may vote in this Lok Sabha election
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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: Stunning Northern Lights spotted in unexpected places around the world
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Watch: Students in Pakistan enact moments from Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant’s pre-wedding event
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‘Hind’s Hall’: Rapper Macklemore releases poignant song in support of Palestine, US campus protests
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Met Gala 2024: From Alia Bhatt to Isha Ambani, what Indians in attendance wore
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Watch: South Korean band performs Rabindra Sangeet accompanied by traditional Korean instruments
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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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Start the week with a film: The unforgettable revolution of the dogs in ‘White God’
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‘Murder in Mahim’ review: A crime as unjust as wrongful death
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‘Srikanth’ review: An inspiring tale of remarkable achievement
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‘The Boy and the Heron’ review: An animation legend rolls out enchantment and emotional resonance
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Watch: Politics, ambition and crime in Vasantha Balan’s ‘Thalaimai Seyalagam’