Once upon a time there was a man called Gilbert Adrian. He dressed the ladies of a long gone Hollywood realm where, it was believed, clothes were as powerful as the plot lines of the films being made. Back then, film costumes either supported the narrative of a film or were meant to be spectacular […]

  Most of the women I know are prone to believe that Islam and fashionability cannot mix. Daughters of a Carrie Bradshaw creed, the popular version of contemporary feminism we have grown acquainted with, most of the women of my generation share the implicit notion that female freedom can be effectively expressed – among other […]

For the past eight months, I have traded sky-high heels for flats, printed pencil skirts and leather minis for skinny jeans, and a rather hectic social life for long, silent hours in libraries and cafés. Like a great many number of females, the beauty of clothes entrances me. My heart races upon the sight of […]

Or Intellectual Musings on Fierce Style   In the informal annals of personal style, there is perhaps no other object that can evoke the idea of coolness as instantaneously as a black leather jacket. There´s something about its fierce physicality, some potent power in its velvety shine, and a mystical clout in the symmetries of […]