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Afterword x Wearers Festival: Moving Places, Changing Clothes – On Dress and Migration
Join us on Wednesday 17 November at 20:30 CET for a live discussion with Wearers Festival on how moving to new places changed what we wore and our…
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Fashion Foreword
No. 4: Wearers
On the complex relationship with our clothes, the sensory experience they offer and the ways clothes shape our life, this issue explores the intimacies…
The Year of the Wearer
Books, series, even a festival: attention for the practice of wearing clothes is growing. Nora Veerman traces this development and wonders: why now?
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Nora Veerman
Trench Coat Therapy
Guest writer Nao Zaragoza from Wearers Festival writes a letter to her trench coat and tells the story of how it became her coat of armour.
It’s Not You, It’s Me: A Bittersweet Farewell to my Stilettos
Guest writer Nessa Recine from Wearers Festival writes a letter to her beloved heels and explains why she said goodbye.
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Nessa Recine
Our Lives Amongst Clothes
Eanna Morrison Barrs joins the Wearers Festival bookclub to discuss their latest pick, 'Patch Work: A Life Amongst Clothes' by Claire Wilcox.
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Eanna Morrison Barrs
Dimensions of Dress: the Sensorial Aspects of Wearing
The way our clothes feel, smell and even sound plays a significant part in the wearing experience. Let’s have a closer look at the familiar everyday…
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Jip Mulder
Footnotes on Wearers
Want to dive further into the theme? We’ve gathered a variety of resources on the topic of wearers, from conversations on stilettos to podcasts on the…
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Judith Beyer
August 2021
No. 3: Fashion and Flowers
On the salience of the carnation bulb in Balenciaga’s recent haute couture show, a meaningful DIY-project with flowers, and the contemporary renaissance…
The Subtle Significance of Flowers at Balenciaga's Fall 2021 Couture Show
Red carnations were given to guests, worn on lapels, and carried down the runway at Balenciaga's 50th Couture Collection last month.
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Eanna Morrison Barrs
Dyeing and the Dead: Colouring Clothes with Flowers
Flowers aren't meant to live forever. Yet, their decay is always somehow tragic. In this month's recollection: an experiment to make mallows, and…
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Nora Veerman
Footnotes on Fashion and Flowers
Want to dive further into this month’s theme? We’ve gathered a variety of resources on the topic of fashion and flowers, from exhibitions on roses to a…
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Jip Mulder
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