Breaking & Healing: When Di Petsa Brought Mythic Performance Art to Fashion Week
Fashion, Ancient History, Runway Fiona Henderson Fashion, Ancient History, Runway Fiona Henderson

Breaking & Healing: When Di Petsa Brought Mythic Performance Art to Fashion Week

Di Petsa’s Persephone inspired runway. Di Petsa is a UK based designer whose designs have been worn by Kim Kardashian, Ashley Graham, Chloe Bailey, and Shakira. In her recent show at fashion week, and inspired by the Greek myth of Persephone, Di Petsa created an explorative study of “Breaking and Healing”, creating a fashion underworld, with its queen as the figurehead.

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Sumptuary Laws in Fashion: What Are They?
Fashion History, Fashion, Ancient History, Tudors Olivia Kirsten Lane Fashion History, Fashion, Ancient History, Tudors Olivia Kirsten Lane

Sumptuary Laws in Fashion: What Are They?

The most basic definition of a sumptuary law is of a law that is designed to regulate consumption, particularly regarding things like food, furnishings, expenditures, and particularly apparel. Some of the earliest examples of what we would consider being predecessors of sumptuary laws can be found in Ancient Egypt.

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The (Pre)History of Fashion
Fashion History Jessa Peña Fashion History Jessa Peña

The (Pre)History of Fashion

Despite popular belief, humans have been dressing for fashion for the majority of their existence. Though we picture cavemen and prehistoric peoples as individuals enslaved to basic survival, ancient cultures were filled with decorative accessories, complex patterns, and fashion workers who made the trendy hunter-gatherers possible.

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