Body Horror

Prompt No. 67: Race Fetishization and Fashionable Beauty

Despite its significance, the body is notably absent from a lot of fashion theory. Over the centuries, writers, historians, and theorists — overwhelmingly white and male — may have wedged in a section on comportment but little else. That may not seem like that big of a deal, but the omission shapes how we understand clothing. Only when embodied and situ…