The Best Articles in Fashion
The most useful articles in Fashion from around the web—beginners to advanced—curated by thought leaders and our community. We focus on timeless pieces and update the list whenever we discover new, must-read articles or videos—make sure to bookmark and revisit this page.
Top 5 Fashion Articles
At a glance: these are the articles that have been most read, shared, and saved in Fashion by Refind users in 2023 so far.
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How to save money on clothes shopping
From being patient to cheating a bit, Anna Pursglove reveals how fashion’s smartest shoppers bag a bargain.
How To Unlearn What Society Told Us About Outfit Repeating
Avoiding outfit repeating is a privileged mindset that almost nobody can keep up with, yet the pressures still exist.
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Fed up with facial recognition cameras monitoring your every move? Italian fashion may have the answer
The red-headed man wearing what looks like the ultimate Christmas sweater walks up to the camera. A yellow quadrant surrounds him. Facial recognition software immediately identifies the man as ... a…
Musicians at Paris Fashion Week 2023
From Doja Cat to members of BTS, see the artists who showed up in the City of Lights.
Cat Ears, Swarovski Crystals & More: See Doja Cat's Impressive Style Evolution
Here’s Doja Cat’s style evolution, from 2014 to present day.
Fast Fashion Is Everywhere on Social Media. How Can Teens Resist?
The sheer volume of super cheap clothes being advertised to young people is alarming—and terrible for the environment
Not so faux: How the ‘fake’ fur industry is secretly selling you real fur
Products with real fur masquerading as fake are sometimes sold at low prices. Most people expect real fur to be more expensive than material made from synthetics.
Short Articles
Short on time? Check out these useful short articles in Fashion—all under 10 minutes.
How Many Clothes Should We Own, Exactly?
A lot less than you think, if a new report is anything to go by.
How Gen Z is redefining ugliness
A deep dive into a booming economy where TikTok’s “uglycore”, awful-looking NFTs, ugly vegetables, chaotic cakes and more unesthethicaly pleasant things now take centre stage — and why people are…
Watch AI Generate Dozens of Fashion Designs in a Mesmerizing Video
Yesterday, Twitter got a taste of what the beginnings of text-to-image-generated fashion might look like — and it's beautiful.
The Toxic History of Color
For all of human history, our species have used both natural and synthetic dyes—but have we taken our obsession with color to an extreme?
Trends are dead
Everything and anything can be a trend on the internet. Why are we so determined to name them?
«Trend brain, as I call it, encourages us to simplify everything online into something either buyable, understandable, or moral (and therefore worthy of consumption).»
Long Articles
These are some of the most-read long-form articles in Fashion.
Is Gen Z Killing Vintage Fashion?
Inside the cutthroat world of rag houses and reselling in the age of TikTok.
What fast fashion costs the world
Many clothing donations end up in an unexpected place — African landfills.
«In the end, only Rwanda stood its ground — a sign of the geopolitical power imbalance that makes it hard for African countries to assert their economic independence from the»
Acronym casts a long shadow over cyberpunk fashion
The inspirations behind the techwear seen in games like Death Stranding often come from the same place
Miyake’s Layers | Jane Hu, Haley Mlotek, Su Wu, hannah baer, Nicole Lipman
Yesterday’s Pleats are in tomorrow’s seafood (microplastics, it seems, tend to proliferate in mollusks like scallops, mussels and oysters, fancy girl food and treif alike). Of all the myriad…
The Future Of Fashion: From Design To Merchandising, How Tech Is Reshaping The Industry
A look at the evolution of the fashion industry and where technology is taking it next, from AR/VR dressing rooms to temperature-changing fabrics and beyond.
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The Cut
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gal-dem
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n+1
n+1 is a print and digital magazine of literature, culture, and politics.
The Baffler
Political and cultural criticism, satire, and salvos. Since 1988. Online and in print.
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