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Adventures in Feministory: Stepanova and Popova

Love / Shove blog post by Briar Levit, November 16, 2008 - 1:54pm; tagged art, design, fashion, soviet, textiles.


As a graphic designer, my interests in innovative women of history are often strongest for those involved in visual arts. And as a former student of Russian and a devoted Russophile, my obsession with designers of post-revolutionary Russia is off the charts. Enter Varvara Stepanova and Liubov Popova.

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It’s Ladies’ Night on Project Runway

Love / Shove blog post by Kelsey Wallace, October 15, 2008 - 1:57pm; tagged bravo, fashion, Project Runway.

Project Runway

 Get your DVRs ready, feminists, because the finale of this season’s Project Runway airs tonight, and for the first time in the show’s history all three contestants are female.

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Feminism, fashion, and flare: Call for submissions

Bitch on Wheels blog post by Debbie Rasmussen, August 30, 2008 - 2:52pm; tagged calls for submissions, fashion, style.

Passing this along... The deadline is fast approaching, so write speedily!

Call for Papers: Feminism, Fashion and Flair: Confronting Hegemony with Style (Deadline: 9/15/08)

We are soliciting essays for an anthology on gender politics and pop culture trends. We’re looking for intellectual depth, political passion, and writing that snaps..

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'Stache-tastic!

sm[art] blog post by Briar Levit, August 26, 2008 - 2:55pm; tagged fashion, gender-bending, moustaches, trend.

Let me preface this by saying, that I don't believe this phenomenon is revolutionary or even very subversive in terms of gender-bending. But it IS a trend I've noticed, and one I can't help but enjoy.

Men have been donning this upper-lip facial hair for a long time, of course. It was a victorian trend, it was a 70's trend and now it looks to be a 2000's trend. But beyond the male moustache resurgance, I've notice a trend by those of us with the double x chromosome make-up. Nowadays fake eyelashes aren't the only false facial hair women are taking advantage of. Plenty are having fun with the contrast of a traditionally femme appearance in contrast with a striking patch of hair on the lip.

The first time I became aware of this trend was at a New Year's Eve party last year. Someone showed up with a package of fake moustaches and the ladies in attendance went nuts. They were wearing them all night (crooked by end) and everyone looked decidedly cute with their added facial hair. 

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There are no words

Love / Shove blog post by Andi Zeisler, June 18, 2008 - 10:16am; tagged babies, fashion, horror.

I don't know whether to thank my friend Elise for bringing this to my attention, or gently curse her:

High heels. For babies. That is all.

Also, when Fox News's Megyn Kelly starts sounding hard-hitting and feminist, the apocalypse is clearly nigh.

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Is Christian Siriano making a hot mess of the term "tranny"?

Love / Shove blog post by Andi Zeisler, March 14, 2008 - 2:44pm; tagged fashion, reality tv, tv, WTF?.

by Margaret Price

Project Runway 4: The Season of Love. And no designer was more lovable than the prancing, snapping, flat-iron–wielding Christian Siriano, who ended up winning it all—the final runway showdown, the spread in Elle, and the $10K Fan Favorite prize. Sassing and sewing with equal velocity, the diminuitive designer and self-described "big deal" introduced us to an array of hip, new-to-many-Americans phrases: Fierce! Ferosh! A hot mess up in here! A hot tranny mess up in here!

Wait. Tranny?

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The Great Cover-Up

Can High Necklines Cure Low Morals?
The Great Cover-Up
Article by Shira Tarrant, Illustrated by Liza Corbett, appeared in issue Lost & Found; published in 2008; filed under Books; tagged asking for it, fashion, modesty, moralizing, promiscuity, sexuality, sluttiness, virgin/whore, young women.

In an era when it’s possible to turn on the television on any given night and see a clutch of bikini-clad women crawling over their male prey (ABC’s The Bachelor), a sex-toy demonstration (HBO’s Real Sex), or a 9-year-old showing off her moves on her parents’ personal stripper pole (E!’s Keeping Up with the Kardashians), Wendy Shalit’s assertion that modesty has made a comeback seems a little, well, optimistic.

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It's So...

Bitch on Wheels blog post by Debbie Rasmussen, December 5, 2007 - 9:15pm; tagged fashion, friends of Bitch, Portland.

Tonight, four of us contributors to Michelle Tea's latest anthology, It's So You: 35 Women Write about Personal Expression through Fashion & Style, read at Powell's.

Mary Christmas started the night off with the story of her illustrious career as a young New York fashion model ending with an ill-timed family move to Chicago, where modeling perms for hair salons was considered top of your game.

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When Tyra Met Naomi

Race, Fashion, and Rivalry
When Tyra Met Naomi
Article by Hawa Allan, Illustrated by Caitlin Kuhwald, appeared in issue Green; published in 2007; filed under Social commentary; tagged competition, fashion, fashion models, media, race, tv.

One of the last places I expected to hear an engaging antiracist and feminist critique of the fashion industry was on The Tyra Banks Show. But on a January 2006 episode, there was Banks, sitting couch-to-couch with supposed arch­nemesis and fellow supermodel Naomi Campbell, discussing the forces that years ago had pitted the two women against each other on the assumption that America had room for only one black top model.

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Full Frontal Offense

Taking Abortion Rights to the Tees
Article by Rebecca Hyman, published in 2004; tagged abortion, consciousness raising, fashion, political art, reproductive rights, second wave.

There’s a new front in the battle for abortion rights—the literal front, that is, of a t-shirt designed by writer and feminist activist Jennifer Baumgardner that proclaims “I had an abortion.” The shirt, initially for sale on Planned Parenthood’s national website and now available on Clamor magazine’s website, has generated controversy among not only the antiabortion community but also pro-choice feminists.

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