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A few months ago, I stumbled upon a story on Reddit about a most outrageous example of improper dressing. A woman who showed up for an interview in a bikini. On top of that, she couldn’t show any professionalism and kept doing other business during the interview. I understand the world is changing, and as ...
Are you planning to build your wardrobe but you’re not sure which colors will look best on you? Adding additional color to your wardrobe may initially appear daunting and nearly unattainable, but it’s actually quite simple. There are obviously no “rules” in fashion. You may practically wear any colors you please and look fantastic doing ...
On November 12, a Christian Dior exhibition took place at the West Bund Art Center in Shanghai that featured work by Chinese fashion photographer Chén Màn 陈漫. The Art’n’Dior exhibition theme was “Dior and Art” and “Lady Dior.” According to Business of Fashion, it featured “a series of Lady Dior handbags reinterpreted as part of ...
Tian Qi’s Tang Dynasty-inspired handbags came about when Qi, an avid art collector and architect, came across an exhibition poster of Japan’s Nara museum, he was intrigued. The poster showed the image of a Tang pipa instrument that had a round flower and light-colored square pattern decoration on it. The simplicity of the design and ...
Some teenagers wear ripped jeans and brow-raising shirts to tell the world they are a rebel, and some decorate themselves in glam fashion, showing everyone that they’ve made it in the world. Fashion is truly a statement. Likewise, people in ancient China embodied the concept that fashion is tied to your individuality, particularly in terms ...
It is estimated that the fashion industry accounts for 10 percent of carbon emissions and 20 percent of wastewater generation every year. Almost half the non-biodegradable microfibers that end up in the oceans annually come from clothes. This is basically the equivalent of throwing 50 billion plastic bottles into the oceans. Given these numbers, it ...
As societies have become prosperous, human consumption has greatly increased as well. This is pretty evident when looking at clothing. People today purchase numerous outfits every year to keep up with changing fashion styles, known as fast fashion. This trend of fast fashion is causing so many problems to our environment and human values that ...
Recently, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) caught hold of fashion apparel from China they suspect was sourced from Xinjiang’s prisons and made using forced labor. Though the CBP did not reveal which American companies were importing such items, an investigation by the Associated Press tracked the products to enterprises like Costco. Forced labor ...
Justine Leconte is a French blogger who has an online channel that talks about style and beauty and clothing classics from the perspective of a French woman. Many of her videos promote natural beauty, minimal makeup, understanding color to dress, understanding what fabrics to buy, how to wash clothes properly — with the environment in ...