Whether it be through a suit jacket or a hand-cut tee, University of Sydney students have always known how to show up to a protest. Eastern Avenue — and Science Road, and the Redfern Run — will always be our runway.
Browsing: Fashion
Both organisations communicated clearly through their fashion that this racist, colonial, capitalist world — “this narrow world, strewn with prohibitions” as Frantz Fanon outlines — “can only be called in question by absolute violence.”
Two-piece “prom” style dresses with intricate beading and often, a matching scarf, are all over my Pinterest currently. I like to call this trend “lehenga lite.” I propose a similar, inverse, trend called “shalwar kameez lite”, where we should all think about a dress and pants as two halves of the same outfit.
I pose Siddartha’s question to you: “Have you also learned that secret from the river, that there is no such thing as time?” As a girl from a long line of saree-wearers, I say yes.
Are you an it girl or a clean girl? Coastal granddaughter or coquette? Art hoe or cyberpunk?
What is interesting about cuteness is that it has entwined itself with youth culture, acting as a form of rebellion against the norm. Yet, its perpetuation of innocence still conforms to patriarchal ideals of purity and childlike naivete: ‘desirable’ traits for women
Taobao’s success is predicated on high, close demand, direct access to cheap, domestic labour, and universal digital integration. And so it’s unlikely its success will be replicated in a country like Australia. But this new, centralised, gamified form of online shopping may well become the norm.
Fashion, at its core, is a powerful form of self-expression, and no one embodies this better than drag queens
I hope that you learn something from all the brilliant writers who have contributed to this edition, or that you at least do a double take in the mirror next time you put on a new outfit. And I hope you see the value of learning to cut from your own unique cloth.
Qiuhua sees it in the way the air blurs and shimmers when Yangfeng is near, the blood-clotting warmth and organ-squeezing butterflies.
