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From Fendi to fast fashion

Collections on the runway and the realm of high fashion are frequently associated with an industry of vanity—deemed a frivolous extravagance only attainable to a select few. Despite the seemingly detached quality of high fashion, its covert influence on the average person is very profound—and delving deeper into the circular nature of the industry makes runway fashion’s transcendence hard to ignore.

Previously in Postscript

November 3, 2009

Playing the name game

With the likes of Apple, Bronx Mowgli and Moon Unit, one thing’s certain—names are strange things. Poet W.H. Auden called them poetry in the raw and deemed them as untranslatable, but others attribute names the power to determine one’s personality when he or she grows up.

October 30, 2009

Slack-o'-lantern

Don’t know what to dress as tomorrow night? Postscript has you covered with these last-minute ideas

October 27, 2009

Turn on, tune in, log out

Thanks to an ever-growing dependence on technology, the once-complacent morning routine of a pot of coffee and the local newspaper may be a thing of the past—the Internet’s hold on users’ time and attention has created an online monopoly.

October 23, 2009

Written in the stars or just the papers?

For generations, human beings have searched the stars for cosmic wisdom. Astrology has been a phenomena studied and practiced throughout the ancient civilizations of Europe, Asia and Africa, only to re-emerge in Western popular culture.

October 20, 2009

The marvel of the fantastic frames

When news of Archie Andrews’s apparent marriage to Veronica Lodge hit last May, Twitter feeds and Facebook statuses flooded with posts addressing the fate of the iconic Betty/Veronica/Archie love triangle.