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David Bowie: Desperately Seeking the Goon Squad

Reading the tributes these past few days to David Bowie, in particular those extolling his fashion icon status, it occurs to me with sadness how little he features in my classroom. Or, more to the point, how little a presence he seems to have in my students’ lives. (I will refer to Bowie in the present tense because his influence on fashion isn’...

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Fashion Show Rejects

Did you, like me, watch the small revolutions that happened in London and New York during May and June’s graduate fashion shows and think, Aha! Something vital and interesting is afoot? I’m referring to the simultaneous decisions by students of both Parsons and Central St Martin’s who had not been selected for their school’s official runway show...