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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.
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.
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.