Fashion, Design & Consumer Culture

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (247+ words) Yahoo Above: Source du Désert clip and Disques Solaires earrings, vancleefarpels.com. Status is conferred, in one way or another, via rarity—of object, of material. Lapis, the blue stone found most famously in the hills of Afghanistan, was prized…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (668+ words) Barcelona is a consolidated city. Seen from the air, it could seem like a completed city, with no room for new transformations. However, as pointed out by Bernardo Secchi, an Italian urban planner and thinker of the contemporary city, "the…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (340+ words) As explained in the Administration's documentation, fountains and troughs (fules, longer and thinner hollowed-out trunks that water touches) and two troughs (containers for collecting water) were placed at the very source of the Lepešnica. Fountains are narrow, hollowed-out wooden pipes…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (346+ words) Jema Ferrer said unequivocally, “India was never poor; rather, it was deliberately made poor.” According to her, the image of India presented in Western films and popular culture does not represent its full reality. India’s thousands-of-years-old civilisation, knowledge traditions, art,…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (590+ words) The forgotten stories of women who worked at Marks & Spencer's original Penny Bazaar have been uncovered in archives New Findmypast research reveals how young women at Newcastle Grainger Market's famous Penny Bazaar helped support Newcastle families through hardship and change…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago   (796+ words) Unilever's Lever House in Port Sunlight(Image: Liverpool Echo) For nearly 100 years, Unilever has made products found on the shelves of homes all around the world, and their unmistakable branding and advertising has been familiar to generations of customers. A…...

1+ day, 20+ hour ago   (121+ words) Benin Cotton Hopes Journal-News.com Dense Fog Advisory from SUN 3:13 AM EDT until SUN 10:00 AM EDT Workers arrange garments at Glo-Djigbé Industrial Zone outside Cotonou, Benin, Monday, May 18, 2026. Oktoberfest, high school football: Expect slow traffic in Springboro tonight ‘It…...

1+ day, 16+ hour ago   (1504+ words) Welcome to the 297th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal (“NLJ”) and its short-form writing sister publication, The Emu Café Social (“ECS”). I was hoping to publish…...

2+ day, 3+ hour ago   (35+ words) Some pieces of historical clothing look so bizarre to modern eyes that it is hard to believe people once paid …...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (750+ words) Visalia Heritage has passed the halfway point in its fundraising drive that will allow it to close escrow on the former Southern Pacific Depot building and transform it into a permanent Visalia museum and cultural center. “We've raised over a…...