Lolita, Fashion Icon
How Nabokov's nymphet has been claimed, reimagined, exemplified, and misunderstood by the fashion industry
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9 Fashionable Books That Make Clothes a Main Character
Stylish literature for bookworms who are also clotheshorses
Apr 22 2019 - Cynthia Gralla
Twitter Fiction Turns a Fashion Show into Dante’s Inferno for the Modern Age
This Twitter Fiction Turns a Fashion Show into Dante’s Inferno for the Modern Age Ever wonder what a runway collection looks like in the Bad Place? Wonder no more
Feb 23 2018 - Electric Literature
This Twitter Thread About a Fashion Show is the Best Dystopian Novel We’ve Read in Ages
It’s like Station Eleven meets Project Runway
Feb 9 2018 - Electric Literature
Fashionably Late
Apr 16 2011 - Electric Literature
If You Want to Change Your Life, Start by Changing Your Outfit
One woman’s committed search for a uniform as versatile as her dreams
May 23 2023 - Marissa D’Orazio
The Webbed-Arm Man Never Wanted My Twin
"The Last Unmapped Places" from HERE IN THE NIGHT by Rebecca Turkewitz, recommended by Wynter K Miller for Electric Literature
May 22 2023 - Rebecca Turkewitz
Masculinity Is the Soft and Vulnerable Thing Inside Me
If anything was poisoning me, it was the mantle of womanhood that was forced upon me
May 18 2023 - Jonah Wu
Being an Honorary White Person Doesn’t Make Us More Powerful
“Beef” reminds us that choosing proximity to whiteness often means doing harm to ourselves and others
May 10 2023 - Frankie Huang
The City Can’t Replace Her Best Friend
"Julia" from THE SORROWS OF OTHERS by Ada Zhang, recommended by Sarah Thankam Mathews
