A Runway Walk Through Fashion History By Jonquil O’Reilly As a fashion historian, I can’t help but view contemporary clothing through an historical lens and compare trends and sartorial choices to those from centuries past. With “fast fashion” so immediately available today, we’ve largely lost sight of the time, skilled craftsmanship and sheer expense that […]
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Art in Odd Places 2023: DRESS / Thinkers in Residence
November 10, 2023 – 3:11 pm
Liberation on 14th Street By Diana Boros Herbert Marcuse commented in his subversive and radical text of the late 1960s- one that gained immediate popularity with the countercultural movements of the time- An Essay on Liberation, that, “The wild revolt of art has remained a short-lived shock…” (42). What he meant was that subversive and […]