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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When an emperor came calling on a newly independent India to learn from its early successes
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How the high demand for coaching classes reflects India’s employment and economic distress
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‘Crew’ review: A sexy, funny and honest airline heist movie
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Bharti group’s Rs 150 crore bond donation to BJP coincided with Modi government’s telecom U-turn
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Kotak firm’s Rs 60 crore donation to BJP coincided with crucial RBI decisions on Kotak Mahindra Bank
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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: Comedian sings Ed Sheeran song in the style of artists ranging from Sonu Nigam to Kumar Sanu
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Watch: Woman holds abdominal plank position for over four and half hours
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Watch: Kuno National Park posts video to celebrate cheetah cub Mukhi’s first birthday
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Watch: Migrant workers travel in train toilet owing to unavailability of seats
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Watch: PTI posts video accusing male ANI reporter of assaulting and abusing its woman journalist
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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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‘Patna Shuklla’ review: A competently argued legal drama
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‘Inspector Rishi’ review: A superbly crafted battle between fact and fable
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‘Alibaba Aani Chalishitle Chor’ review: A lightweight study of modern marriage
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‘Crew’ review: A sexy, funny and honest airline heist movie
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‘Amar Singh Chamkila’ trailer: Diljit Dosanjh plays the slain Punjabi singer in Imtiaz Ali’s biopic