Fashion

A person cutting a ribbon at a store opening event for Shein, surrounded by an applauding crowd including individuals wearing "Shein Squad" attire. A Shein sign is visible above.
DW
Newly opened Shein garners criticism in Paris despite fanfare
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A group of sheep fenced in on a city street, surrounded by people observing them, with luxury store fronts and a sign reading 'MilanoUnica' in the background.
DW
Italian wool is starting to go out of fashion
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Fashion
In a hub for fast fashion, ‘deadstock’ brands turn textile waste into small-batch design
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The Red Dress night honored murdered and missing Indigenous women, and girls, Two Spirit and LGBTQ+ people in Canada and worldwide.
Fashion
They call her a ‘Mountain Mover’ — Founder of Vancouver Indigenous Fashion Week revolutionizes the runway
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A store displays packages of unwanted clothing for ready for selling, Iquique, Chile.
Environment
Fast fashion is causing an environmental disaster in Chile’s Atacama Desert
The all-female collective Imilla Skate in Bolivia
Culture
These Indigenous female skateboarders are breaking stereotypes in Bolivia
a tiara
Arts, Culture & Media
New exhibit shows how Islamic art influenced French luxury jewelry maker Cartier
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
fghan women and a girl shop for dresses at a local market in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Sept. 10, 2021.
Afghanistan
Afghan women to the Taliban: #DoNotTouchMyClothes
Ayşe Yıldırım started her modest fashion brand, Miss Ayşe, over a decade ago.
Fashion
Turkey’s modest fashion market hits its stride
White mask with wool straps and green rosettes, with the words Marie Bee Bloom in the top left corner
Environment
Graphic designer creates biodegradable masks that bloom flowers when buried
Merkel stands at a podium flanked by two German flags.
Top of The World
Merkel reverses plan for strict Easter lockdown in Germany
A woman wears a plaid head wrap and dress and poses near a transistor radio
Fashion
Iconic ‘Ghana Must Go’ bag gets refashioned as a meditation on migration
Shifting to face masks has been a survival move for many textile businesses in the southern state of Oaxaca, Mexico.
Mexican artisans make face masks to stay afloat amid coronavirus    
Raphaël Glucksmann, leader of the opposition Parti Socialiste (Socialist Party) and Place Publique (Public Place) list for the European parliament elections, attends a rally in Lyon, France, May 16, 2019.
Human rights
One French politician fights to expose China’s Uighur concentration camps
Norwegian youth sit on the ground while spending time outdoors on a lake.
Lifestyle
Norwegian outdoor living concept ‘friluftsliv’ could be valuable pandemic coping strategy
A padlock motif on fabric produced by Ghana Textiles Printing represents the lockdown in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
COVID-19
This Ghanaian company is producing fabric with motifs inspired by COVID-19
S3E1: World War C
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Antonio Castillo, who moved to the US from Mexico at age 9, is behind an effort to field what he hopes will become Team USA for breakdancing in the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris.
Sports
This Mexican American immigrant wants the US to win gold in the 2024 Olympics — for breakdancing
A close up of hands holding a bourbon bottle and a bottle of hand and surface sanitizer
COVID-19
Iconic distilleries turn to hand sanitizer production around the world
Flowers are seen on the star of late singer Selena Quintanilla-Perez after it was unveiled on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles, California, on November 3, 2017.
Music
What Selena’s life and legacy tell us about Latinx identity today
Following Acquittal, What’s Next for the Democrats? 2020-02-06
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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.
Sheep stand on rocks in front of mountains looking at the camera
Fashion
You’re not being fleeced: This carbon-negative sweater comes with sheep included
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
A woman in a red pheran stands holding an image of a woman in a red pheran
Conflict & Justice
Finding resistance in fashion, Kashmiri creator turns to the pheran
Two men talk over lunch.
Jobs
South Korea’s new ‘blind hiring’ law bans personal interview questions
A transgender woman is shown with long black hair and a glittery top.
LGBTQ
An annual pageant is the one night a year trans women in Turkey can celebrate
Young woman on a green gown smiles while sitting on a sofa.
How a high school student’s hand-painted graduation dress went viral
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
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