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Fashion, Beauty, Power, and Constraint: The Gilded Cage
A handbag that beats the stock market. A waist laced down by inches. The same dress that frees one woman and cages another. Inside the most beautiful, most profitable machine ever built around half of humanity.
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Men's Fashion, the Suit, and the Loss of Colour: The Quiet Uniform
How men's fashion talked itself out of colour — and how it's clawing its way back.
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The Fashion Machine
The thousand-hour couture gown and the five-day Shein jacket are two settings on the same machine. How a few square metres of cloth conquered the world — and learned to read your mind.