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’s Cultural Notes

“If you spent the better part of your academic training defending the intellectual seriousness of costume history to people who considered it a slightly embarrassing hobby, the last four fashion weeks have offered a particular kind of quiet satisfaction. The basque jacket is everywhere. Engageantes are back as ruffled lace cuffs from under coat sleeves. Martingales have reappeared on outerwear without anyone seeming to know the word for them.
What is being signaled by a Brandenburg closure or a peplum jacket is, in most cases, not the technique itself but its silhouette. The passementerie is machine-stitched. The basque requires no more construction expertise than a straight hem. What historical detail provides is borrowed semiotic authority: the visual grammar of specialist work, reproduced at speed across every price point. The depth of field of the past without the actual cost. The sign of rootedness, not the roots.
The vocabulary driving all of this spent decades being considered too specialized for serious fashion discourse. It counts, at the very least, as a rather good joke.”

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Julie Pont, MS 2014, is an independent creative & strategy director

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What have the alumni been up to lately

•⁠ Hosts of the evening and participating in the creative workshop at on the occasion of the exhibition “Beyond Our Horizons”
•⁠ back at for a Masterclass on Sport & Fashion
•⁠ New episode of Fashion Inside Out with .muravetchi.ifm
•⁠ Tailored jacket from ’s graduate collection featured in
•⁠ Conversation on craft, identity and challenges with at @1909.bookstore
•⁠ and hosting a dinner for at with

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