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Over 30,000 people trade in used clothing at Kantamanto market, Accra, Ghana.
Environment
How the West’s obsession with fast fashion compounds an environmental nightmare in Ghana
Ayşe Yıldırım started her modest fashion brand, Miss Ayşe, over a decade ago.
Fashion
Turkey’s modest fashion market hits its stride
Men and women wearing red political shirts chant in front of a department store in South Africa
Protest
‘Racist’ hair care ad in South Africa sparks demonstrations
Divers under the sea
History
Shipwrecked scent: A perfumer re-creates a 150-year-old fragrance
S3E1: World War C
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Following Acquittal, What’s Next for the Democrats? 2020-02-06
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An H&M store in New York.
Why ‘fast fashion’ might need to slow down
An anti-Brexit demonstrator is seen wearing an EU flag cap and a t-shirt with "Cancel Brexit" protesting outside the Houses of Parliament.
Fashion
Statement pieces: Fashion designers worry over Brexit’s cost to UK industry
tattooist
Culture
South Korea has a burgeoning tattoo scene. But most tattoo parlors are illegal.
A woman walks in front of the store Forever 21.
Fashion
Forever 21 closing stores in bankruptcy filing shows limits to fast fashion, author says
German designer Karl Lagerfeld stands before an ocean backdrop at a fashion show.
Fashion icon Karl Lagerfeld, known for elaborate visuals, is dead at 85
Elizabeth Tyler as Cleopatra lounges on a red cushion, he straight dark hair decorated with gold beads.
Women & Gender
An online campaign is rewriting Egyptian beauty standards
Arts, Culture & Media
Dumpster-Diving for Fashion
Arts, Culture & Media
Zoot Suit Riots
Arts, Culture & Media
Design for the Real World: Mannequin
Arts, Culture & Media
Commentary: ’90s Fashion Artifacts
Arts, Culture & Media
Design for the Real World: Zipper
Arts, Culture & Media
Design for the Real World: T-Shirt
Arts, Culture & Media
Design for the Real World: Mannequin
Arts, Culture & Media
Design for the Real World: Zipper
Arts, Culture & Media
Design for the Real World: Scarves
Arts, Culture & Media
Utilikilt
Arts, Culture & Media
Well Suited
Arts, Culture & Media
Simon Doonan
Arts, Culture & Media
To Be Thrifty Is Clever, The Crime Is To Look It
Arts, Culture & Media
Aha Moment: Sassoon and Bauhaus
Arts, Culture & Media
My Grandmother’s Dress
Arts, Culture & Media
Super Cool Biz: Japan’s Summer Dress Code
Arts, Culture & Media
McQueen’s Savage Beauty to Make World Tour?
Arts, Culture & Media
Roy Lichtenstein Pops into 3-D
Arts, Culture & Media
Cracking the Fashion Code at “Vogue”
Arts, Culture & Media
Cintra Wilson, Fashion Anthropologist
Arts, Culture & Media
Seven Floors of “Eccentric Glamour” with Simon Doonan
Arts, Culture & Media
How a ‘Designer’s Designer’ Made the World Take Note
Armani
Culture
Parents raise concerns over Japanese school’s new Armani requirement
A woman wearing a headwrap and as shimmering blue and gold dress stands in front of a camera, with her hands to her hips.
Culture
Fashion, faith and culture come together through the global art of head wrapping
Tattooed human skin forms part of an exhibit in Portugal.
Arts
Portugal is exhibiting human skin with smutty old tattoos
Arts
What designing lingerie and writing stand-up have in common
Former President and First Lady Michelle Obama dance together at the Governors Ball in 2009.
Arts
Reflecting on eight years of Obama’s executive actions and ‘dad jeans’
Jerry Springer on Trump, Ethical Food, Redefining Plus-Size Fashion
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Airbnb Discrimination, A Public Defender Crisis, The Evolution of Menswear
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Textile Waste, Uber’s Big Data, The Slow Death of Handwriting
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French designer Sonia Rykiel
Culture
Remembering an icon of the French fashion world: Sonia Rykiel dies, age 86
Couture de Force
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The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston has a display of 3-D printed dresses and accessories.
Culture
A Boston museum is showing what the future of fashion might look like
Rollin’ Down The Runway: What Happens When High Fashion Meets a Wheelchair
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The End of Average, Reimagining Fashion, Westminster Rejects
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Fighting Piracy, Infomania, and Bad Design
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Sideshow Podcast: The Legend of #Lakshmeme (LIVE)
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hairstyles
Arts
Capturing a half-century of Nigerian hairstyles
Folorunsho Alakija
Economics
Sorry, Oprah. You’re not No. 1 anymore.
Model Cara Delevingne has her hair styled backstage during London Fashion Week.
Lifestyle
Is it possible to be too beautiful?
Google founder Sergey Brin (L) and designer Diane von Furstenberg sit and watch the rehearsal for her Spring/Summer 2013 collection show during New York Fashion Week September.
Technology
The tech invasion of fashion? The flirting has begun.
Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, 1920
Culture
How the Nazis helped Coco Chanel — and Chanel No. 5
Bill Cunningham takes photos during the Naeem Khan Spring/Summer 2013 collection show at New York Fashion Week in 2012.
Arts
Old-school photographer Bill Cunningham opens up on Instagram
Designer Oscar de la Renta addresses the audience next to singer Juan Luis Guerra during a presentation of his collection in Mexico City in 2011.
Culture
Dominican designers were inspired by native son Oscar de la Renta
Fashioning Cancer
Lifestyle
A Canadian prof designs gowns inspired by cancer cells
Boy jumps into public pool in Auxerre.
Lifestyle
No Speedo? Then don’t try to go swimming in France — seriously
"House Elvis," Eran Levron, performs at The Elvis Inn in Neve Illan, Israel.
Music
Elvis lives — in a small town near Jerusalem
Sahro Hassan (center) surrounded by friends and family modeling her designs.
Lifestyle & Belief
This Somali teen fashion designer goes big with animal print hijabs