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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Has Modi’s Vande Bharat push come at the cost of train safety?
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How the East India Company tried to use paintings to lionise Robert Clive – and failed
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Sexual harassment allegations by wrestlers are horrific – so why is Modi still backing Singh?
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Does quitting social media have long-term benefits? Here’s what researchers say
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‘What Will People Say?’ takes a compelling look at the clash between tradition and forces of change
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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 Danish Sait hilariously spoofs a debate between vegetarians and non-vegetarians
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Watch: Manchester City players, staff serenade Elton John with a rendition of ‘Your Song’ at airport
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Watch: Captured rogue elephant Arikomban is transported in a lorry as onlookers cheer
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Watch: Scenes from the collapse of the bridge over the Ganga in Bihar
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Watch: Elephant charges at safari jeep in Karnataka forest, driver reverses vehicle in time
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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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Watch: Trailer of ‘The Night Manager’ part two is out
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‘Satyaprem Ki Katha’ trailer: Romantic film stars Kartik Aaryan, Kiara Advani
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Tigmanshu Dhulia on Irrfan: ‘His observation of life was very surgical, very meticulous’
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Start the week with a film: ‘Charlie’s Country’ is a powerful portrait of defiance
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‘Scoop’ review: A flat view of a highly irregular case of police overreach