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Introducing The Loom: Fashion as Culture, Labour, Politics, and Heritage
Fashion is usually written about as spectacle. Runways, trends, seasonal collections, celebrity wardrobes. The industry produces endless commentary on what is in and what is out. But clothing has always been more than aesthetics. A garment carries within it the labour of the people who made it, the materials drawn from the land, the cultural codes that shape how bodies are seen in public, and the political histories that determine who profits from its production. To look clos
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The Gucci Gambit: Sorry, Not Sari
Gucci's approach represents a different kind of cultural navigation—one that sidesteps the sari-versus-lehenga debate entirely by refusing to engage with South Asian garment categories at all.
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Sole Searching: The Diwali Gold Rush and Luxury's Big Bet on India
From Louboutin’s Diwali Edit to Barbie’s Indian couture, global brands are flocking to India this festive season. But as luxury collections
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The Kindness Economy: Is compassion in fashion here to stay?
"Pure kindness has amazing impacts on the economy"- Romita Roy writes for TLP on the changing fashion habits of millennials and its impact.
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The Dawn of the Covid Fashion Era: Less Skinny Jeans, More Conscious Consumers
How Covid helped make conscious fashion choices.
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Explainer: Fast-Fashion and Exploitation of the South Asian Garment Industry
Regardless of the pandemic, the fast fashion industry sustains vast inequalities in South Asian countries, as garment and factory workers...
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