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Véronique Hyland — DRESS CODE - with Robin Givhan
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March 19, 2022
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59:04Now PlayingWhy does fashion hold so much power over us? Most of us care about how we dress and how we present ourselves. Style offers clues about everything from class to which in-group we belong to. Bad Feminist for fashion, Dress Code takes aim at the institutions within the fashion industry while reminding us of the importance of dress and what it means for self-presentation. Everything—from societal changes to the progress (or lack thereof) of women’s rights to the hidden motivations behind what we choose to wear to align ourselves with a particular social group—can be tracked through clothing.
Véronique Hyland examines thought-provoking questions such as: Why has the “French girl” persisted as our most undying archetype? What does “dressing for yourself” really mean for a woman? How should a female politician dress? Will gender-differentiated fashion go forever out of style? How has social media affected and warped our sense of self-presentation, and how are we styling ourselves expressly for it?
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Véronique Hyland is ELLE's fashion features director and the author of Dress Code: Unlocking Fashion from the New Look to Millennial Pink. Her work has previously appeared in the New York Times, the New Yorker, W, New York magazine, Harper's Bazaar, and Condé Nast Traveler. She lives in Manhattan and was classically trained as a flutist.
Robin Givhan is senior critic-at-large for the Washington Post, where she began covering the news, trends and business of the international fashion industry. In 2009, she began covering Michelle Obama and the cultural and social shifts stirred by the first African American family in the White House. From 2010-2012, she was special correspondent for style and culture at Newsweek Daily Beast. She returned to the Post in 2014 as fashion critic. In 2020, she was appointed senior critic-at-large. Givhan’s work has appeared in Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue, Vogue Italia, British Vogue, Essence, Elle UK, New York and the New Yorker. She has contributed to several books and is the author, along with the Washington Post photo staff, of “Michelle: Her First Year as First Lady.” Givhan won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in criticism for her fashion coverage.
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