Intended to regulate Black women and reinforce the racial hierarchy, these tignon laws had the opposite effect: Creole women ...

This postulate implies that all of us, at our own level, are leaving a mark on the world. With the problem of climate change, ...

Author Nina Edwards weaves a seamless tale of the social, visual, and economic dimensions of the hidden garments that literally underpin our lives.

This republished article that appeared in WWD on April 18, 1956, details Princess Grace of Monaco’ s trousseau and the ...

SCAD FASH features garments by renowned designer Imane Ayissi that masterfully mix couture aesthetics with African aesthetics ...

Everything from fashion, to contemporary art, to ancient relics has the Midas touch at the ostentatious (and very shiny) ...

The truth is, reuse has been the foundation for emerging designers for decades (see: cult ’90s and early-2000s New York ...

The world of royalty, maidens, knights and fictional beings comes to life at the Carolina Renaissance Festival, a ...

Materials such as bone and wood are extremely performant: although they are made from soft biological polymers, they are strong — and hence allow humans and trees to stand upright — because ...

There are plenty of standout moments in this tight, enterprising exhibition, which reconstructs what happened when three “titans” of the Italian Renaissance briefly overlapped in Republican ...

But there are still huge technological challenges to overcome before getting there, and some of them have to do with materials. Fusion reactors need materials that can be used at the interface ...