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How do young Afghan migrants in Sweden negotiate the desire to belong in their adopted country with the evolving nature of their own national and generational identities? For some young men, branded clothing creates a sartorial space to discover and produce these new hybrid identities.

The founders of Fashion Forward, a new fashion think tank, share their vision for how digital fashion — garments that live in the digital rather than physical world — could play a role in balancing our desire for something new with the urgent need to curtail production and conserve resources.

“Fashion is not, from the perspective of one’s lifeworld and participation in social and political institutions, an unimportant or innocuous part. It addresses social and economic injustices, gender norms, and racial inequities.” Osman Nemli considers fashion as ideology and revisits the notion of the Cruella Complex.

Writer Sawnie Smith reviews Clare Hunter’s text, “Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle.”

“Why is it that when we think of mental health, we so often equate it with poor mental health?” Isabel Formica Jakob reflects on the role of mental health in fashion through the familiar lens of Lee Alexander McQueen.