Three things we can learn from contemporary Muslim women’s fashion

Major art museums have realized there is much to learn from clothing that is both religiously coded and fashion forward. Earlier this year the Metropolitan Museum of Art hosted a fashion exhibition inspired by the Catholic faith titled “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion…

Kirsty Mitchell’s best photograph: a storyteller in a bluebell wonderland

It took five seamstresses two weeks to make the dress. Then, two minutes into the shoot, the model said she was cold and wanted to go home.  The Storyteller by Kirsty Mitchell. Photograph: Kirsty Mitchell Growing up, our house was…