The outsider history of black & white stripes
Everyone thinks of Tim Burton when they see black and white stripes, but there’s a hell of a lot more to the story than that. Join me for my first ever video essay exploring the 700+ year history of how the stripe was used to mark outsiders, and how outsiders reclaimed it as their own.
Do you have to look 'different' to be different?
Someone asked me recently whether fully owning your difference inevitably makes it visible on the outside. In this video I share my answer along with some of my favourite, most ‘me’ outfits.
Aging as art, living as art, dressing as art
Life will happen anyway, may as well make it art
Gorgeous/grotesque
This brief foray into the gorgeous/grotesque world of artist and fashion designer Michaela Stark will make you think about beauty in a whole new way.
“It’s just a little nana belly”
The amazing Arlinda McIntosh showing off her favourite outfits. I wish I was this cool.
Translating your genius
"She [Zandra Rhodes] only moved into fashion because nobody would hire her, she says, even though she had been the star student of her year at art college."
"Clothes worn to substitute for speech."
"Clothes as a way of socializing that stands in for other forms of engagement. Clothes worn to substitute for speech. Clothes worn to fit in, to pass. Clothes worn in imitation of people I’d like to be like – IRL people, people in films, in books. Clothes as a search for the self other people appeared to have – though maybe it was just the way they “put themselves together.”" - Joanna Walsh
Ten years in the making
Why I share my outfits and how they relate to my art (and my alter-ego)
Sci-fi femme fashion fabulosity
The mad flip-floppery of gender and fashion, and orienting towards a future that doesn’t exist
