Roland Barthes says, that ‘The wearing of an item of clothing is fundamentally an act of meaning that goes beyond modesty, ornamentation and protection. It is an act of signification and therefore a profoundly social act right at the heart of the dialectic of society.’
2008
Sustaining Our Identity
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Sublime: Why does heritage have a reputation of being old-fashioned or irrelevant, especially for young people? Francesco Badarin: Maybe we have to define ‘heritage’ better. We are in London,…
Working On The Inside
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Sublime: Hannah, your experiences at the BBC were key to inspiring you to social activism. What do you remember about that time? Hannah Jones: It was a fantastic experience.…
Fashionable Soul
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As Head of the London College of Fashion, a college that has recently celebrated its centenary, I have spent some time contemplating the idea that our current delight in all…
To Hell In A Handcart
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It’s only relatively recently that design has become a word that’s dropped – or overused – at every opportunity. So it’s no wonder it’s taken so long for the…
Mining The Future
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Today, many of us realise that in burning all that coal, and encouraging the rest of the world to follow suit, industrialising Britain was unknowingly stoking humankind’s biggest single problem: global warming. Burning coal, like oil and gas, produces carbon dioxide, and other gases that slowly trap heat in the atmosphere.
Crap Towns
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Could our kids do the same today? They have got something we didn’t have – the internet – but their opportunities to experiment at face-to-face retail are limited, and our…
Light At The End Of The Tunnel
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Climate scientists in government and universities run simulations of future climate that show a very sobering piece of arithmetic. If we are to avoid tipping the planet over the widely…
Passionate Patriarch
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Many Hollywood actors like to sound off about politics. But few have been on the sharp end of it quite like Donald Sutherland. ‘I was in Yugoslavia when I…
