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Meet Desoire the designer removing labels.
Writer Bernadetta interviews Neha Sikder, founder of genderless fashion brand Desoire about her journey removing conventional gendering from her design story.
Breaking The Binary: The Power of Digital Fashion
Digital Fashion designer Joseph, tells us how he uses the new realm of the digital world, to break down gender rules.
Girls, Guns, and Gore: Sapphic Subversions in Rose Glass’ Love Lies Bleeding
Millie O’Brien explores the subversive style of queer cult film: Love Lies Bleeding.
The Green Gender Divide
Men are falling behind in cutting their carbon emissions and taking care of the planet. Why?
DEFINING FASHION: Suiting VS Shirting
No, suiting doesn’t mean suits. Lean the T and feel great next time you get to correct a snooty, suited man on his fashion terminology.
The Blue Eyeshadow Effect: The Metamorphosis of The Madwoman
Writer Zeinab explored the deep, gendered story behind representations of the ‘mad woman’ on screen and the beauty that she wears.
EDITORIAL: The Girl Version of Me Isn’t Dead, Just Repurposed
A visual essay exploring the move from one home, to another.
Fashion Criticism 101: Structures of Power
Develop your critical skills, with this key theory about how we learn obedience.
When Did Beauty Discover Gender?
Professional Makeup Artist Tina Khatri muses on the moments that beauty fell into gender roles for issue one of The Grey.
Demna: Who, Why and How
The man the fashion industry can’t get enough of. Where did he come from, how did he get a job at Margiela fresh from uni, and whats he going to bring to Gucci?
Dressing for the Male Gaze vs Female Gaze: How a feminist theory took the internet by storm.
Reenad dives into the origins and implications of the ‘dressing for the female gaze’ trend that took over Tiktok.
Understanding Aesthetics with CARI Institute
We chatted with the Sofi & Evan from the research institute dedicated to identifying and defining aesthetic trends, about their work, how trend cycles work and where they come from in the first place!
Defining Fashion: Getting to Know Fabric
Learn the meanings of ‘warp and weft’, ‘selvage’ and ‘grain arrow’ and find your confidence making your own clothing.
Labubus and the Curation of Personality.
Contributor to Issue 1 of The Grey, Neena, takes to the keyboard again to delve into the real psychology of our Labubu obsession, and what it symbolises for our identities.
Full Cringe, in Lieu of a Personality
Why graphic tees are the saving grace for the personality-less, and why they make our editor, Daisy, want to be your friend.
Sans Culottes: Why Today’s Baggy Trousers are Rooted in Protest.
How the Sans-Culottes of the French Revolution reclaimed loose trousers.
DEFINING FASHION: Couture VS Haute Couture
Learn the difference between Couture and Haute Couture!
Black Dandyism and the Duplicity of the Met Gala
The powerful origins of the Black Dandy, and why everyone always gets so angry when cameras turn to the Met Gala steps…
Anarchist Calisthenics: Rehearsing to Revolt
Learn how to practice everyday acts of resistance with your fashion choices.