The WomeneXWomen (WXW) exhibit, celebrating its second year, was founded with the intention to draw awareness to the unique perspective of women in an industry dominated by the male gaze and to encourage women to get behind a camera lens and create their own fashion vision.

Feature contributor to This Is Worldtown, Danah Abdulla of The Yuppie Activist, reports.
Photographs by Sarah Blais from Thirty9Steps

Cult culture (no pun intended) has never made immediate sense to me. Following a figure, film or other iconic symbol obsessively to the point of worship - or perfect recitation of quotes and scripted comedic …

Feature contributor to This Is Worldtown, Danah Abdulla of The Yuppie Activist, explores Toronto’s off-site style scene around Fashion Week.

Pop culture references and posers? Yep.
Youth, speed, trouble, cigarettes? You got it.

With photos by Renata Kaveh.

East London Dance Company’s recent production, Local/International, took the precarious role of shaping for Londoner’s the state of dance in this country. That is, in the world. It brought the story of “internationalism” - the less trendy forefarther to globalization - to a city that is the epicentre for such processes. And this story is dictated by an all female cast of choreographers (some well known, others just breaking the ice) inside the city that’s seen it all, either welcomed it, contained it, or passively ignored it.

Post Your Map :: We will regularly present a featured artist, writer or performer who is exploring questions of identity and personal narrative through their medium of expression.

The map is your representation. No rigid lines, no defined routes. You direct it on your own account.

Lumped together, Autumn/Winter 2010 is readily told by the cast of London Fashion Week: who to wear, what to wear, and how to wear it - but who’s doing the telling? Adjacent to the utra-high fashion set in West-Central London’s setting of LFW headquarters at Sommerset House is an opening for amateur and Do-It-Yourself status budding designers. The “Untold” is a collective for designers and creatives that have limited access to entering the competitive world of high-fashion.

This Is Worldtown had the opportunity to backstage at the Belle Sauvage show for their Autumn/Winter 2010 collection. Check out the slideshow for all the action, from start to finish.

Spotted via Africa is a Country: Die Antwoord - a trio from South Africa that happens to be the hipster obsession du jour, has previously been referred to as a “wild and savage rap group from the deep, dark, …

:: Dispatches from London Fashion Week ::
To see the Autumn/Winter 2010 collection from Jena.Theo come down the runway at London Fashion Week, it is difficult to believe that just half a year ago the duo behind the line, Jenny Holmes and Dimitris Theocharidis, were participating in their very first catwalk show as part of Fashion Fringe at Covent Garden.

:: Dispatches from London Fashion Week ::
During London Fashion Week, Somerset House is not the only place wear fashion mavens congregate.
Just a stones throw away from that iconic venue, at the Strand Hotel, an event is taking place bringing together lesser known and emerging, but in many ways, equally talented designers, under the banner ‘Fashion Mavericks’