You are what you wear: our growing absence of awareness
I really struggled with coming up with a topic for this month’s post. I was so focused on finding a ‘summer’ piece, but struggled to find much substance in a lot of the topics I initially tried to write about. This post was inspired by a repost of my mutuals ‘talklacemagazine’ (instagram) and ‘cutipiekitties’ (TikTok) of a video by ‘e.cxhi’ on TikTok about how wearing Vivienne Westwood is innately anti-government. Since writing my piece on ‘Politics in Polyester’, I’ve been involved in more conversations about politics in the fashion industry and so thought it’d be interesting to take the same topic in a slightly different route. I’m sure we’ve all seen behind the scenes filming of The Devil Wears Prada 2, and in this conversation I can’t help but think of that scene in the original where Miranda’s team are choosing between two ‘identical’ belts according to Andy. Miranda then proceeds to critique Andy on her ‘choice’ of sweater that arguably wasn’t her o...