Charlie Engman is a photographer, visual artist, and currently the creative director of the fashion brand Collina Strada. One of his most fruitful artistic collaborations has been with his mother, Kathleen, a model for many of his fashion images.
Beyond Hijab and Modest Fashion: Muslim American Women’s Negotiations of Wardrobes and Identities
South Asian Muslim American women balance modesty, cultural belonging, and fashion in negotiating their dress practices. Through clothing and accessories, they build personal and group identities that reflect the multivalent realities of their lives. This ethnographic study of SAMA women in Chicago lovingly shares stories of dress as self-actualization embedded in community.
Stitching Together: What can Female Networking Groups of the Renaissance Teach Us About the Power of Making Clothes Together?
For women in Renaissance Italy, needlework was a very important practice; it was the peak of virtue in household responsibilities. Louisa Hunt explores and experiments with the long history of embroidery in historic Italian communities.
Skill, Love, and a Dream: Maidenform and the Story of Ida and William Rosenthal
From teen revolutionaries in early 1900s Tsarist Russia to New York lingerie millionaires, Ida and William Rosenthal nurtured a business and personal partnership that surfed the waves of 20th-century American fashion.