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FRAGMENT OF A DRESS
Image: Fragment of a Dress. Detail. Courtesy of Hannah Lamb. ‘My mother was a seamstress…I still have a wool coat she wore often. When I wear it, I feel...
FRAGMENT OF A DRESS
Image: Fragment of a Dress. Detail. Courtesy of Hannah Lamb. ‘My mother was a seamstress…I still have a wool coat she wore often. When I wear it, I feel...

EXCELENTE TRABAJO
Image: Mexican embroidery Many people can recite Oscar Wilde’s quip, ‘imitation is the sincerest form of flattery’. Fewer, perhaps, will know the full quote: ‘Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery...
EXCELENTE TRABAJO
Image: Mexican embroidery Many people can recite Oscar Wilde’s quip, ‘imitation is the sincerest form of flattery’. Fewer, perhaps, will know the full quote: ‘Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery...

FINE AND DANDY
Image: Detail of embroidered court suit, 1770-85. Courtesy of Manchester Art Gallery Tom Ford once said, “British men are peacocks. You see a lot more style on the streets here than...
FINE AND DANDY
Image: Detail of embroidered court suit, 1770-85. Courtesy of Manchester Art Gallery Tom Ford once said, “British men are peacocks. You see a lot more style on the streets here than...

WHAT WATER WILL
Image: Jota Mombaça, in the tired watering, 2022. Documentation of performance at the future site of the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo on the island of San Giacomo. Photo by Irene Fanizza....
WHAT WATER WILL
Image: Jota Mombaça, in the tired watering, 2022. Documentation of performance at the future site of the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo on the island of San Giacomo. Photo by Irene Fanizza....

THE FUTURE'S GREEN
Image: Courtesy of Georgie Apps Angy Young has lived a life in fashion. Previously a freelance costume designer, and a consultant for a London-based fashion brand, producing collections which were shown...
THE FUTURE'S GREEN
Image: Courtesy of Georgie Apps Angy Young has lived a life in fashion. Previously a freelance costume designer, and a consultant for a London-based fashion brand, producing collections which were shown...

EXPLORING SOUTH AMERICA
Image: Cloth with Procession of Figures, 170 BC–AD 70. Central Andes, south coast, Wari Kayan Necrópolis(?), Nasca people. Cotton and pigment (field), camelid fiber (border and fringe); 276 by 65.2 cm....
EXPLORING SOUTH AMERICA
Image: Cloth with Procession of Figures, 170 BC–AD 70. Central Andes, south coast, Wari Kayan Necrópolis(?), Nasca people. Cotton and pigment (field), camelid fiber (border and fringe); 276 by 65.2 cm....