Tag: fashion
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Top Worst Fall 2018 Fashion Trends That No-One Really Understands
I have always had an eye for the upcoming trends. Don’t ask me how I’ve mastered it. It is like an instinct, certainly something that I accidentally do. Now, after spending eight months in a small city in Laconia, Greece I can say with authority that I can spot with the same ease the fashion…
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Berlin Street-Style: How Berliners really look like
Photos by Léah Njeim I ‘ve always enjoyed scrolling down through every street style reportage about every fashion mecca. Street style has been used as a style-forecaster, defining trends and pin-pointing subcultures. Nowadays, street style photos look like amateur editorials without a point. When I first came to Berlin, I had an idea of how…
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Fashion Week Berlin: Reinventing revolution with “Riots Daughter” Rebekka Ruétz’ collection
by Kristel Liakou We met the Austrian Rebekka Ruétz back in 2008 when she won the “Congos Relevance Award”. She really tickled our fancy with her collection which established her as “The Best Newcomer” young designer by STEFFL” in 2013. Ruétz is known for her theatrical style and the extreme and remarkable creations…
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High Heels: A symbol of gender discrimination
You may already know that what we wear gives credit to who we are. In capitalist societies, branding is the most important thing when it comes to communication. Apparel is something like a “badge of origin” -represents who we are. Additionally, high-heeled shoes symbolize specific ideas, and as far as we know they have always…
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Make fashion, not war: Beni Fashion Week in Congo has a political meaning
Do you ever wonder how fashion can be used alternatively? How would fashion look like if it wouldn’t be used as a medium for sales? Well, here in Closet Liberation, we all strive for this kind of fashion and we surely know that you strive for it as well. An example of fashion activism is…
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De-clutter your wardrobe: Three key steps to find your style
In other words, you should declutter your closet in order to find your style. Let me speak from personal experience. I used to have this huge bedroom back at my house in Athens, Greece. Two out of four walls were covered by closets -not to mention that the one wall was actually the glass partition that…
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Anti-Angels: The first Anti-Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show
Self-image is distorted by socially contracted ideas of beauty. Those beauty ideas are often presented by media and especially by the fashion industry. The beauty model right now is “thin and symmetrical” and moreover “no curves”, as if the modern woman has to be gender-less in order to be attractive. But why? About a third of…
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Wow. Thank You very much! That's a pretty valuable post you published here. I'm living since some months in Athens…
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