Costume Design

Costume as Kinetic Thought: Dance, Theatre, and the Rewriting of the Performing Body in the 20th Century

Created: January 22, 2026 02:36 PM

In the twentieth century, costume ceased to be an accessory to performance and became a form of thinking in motion. Across dance and theatre, fabric no longer followed the body, it questioned it, reshaped it, and redefined how movement, identity, and meaning could exist on stage.

Pregnancy as Material Shift: How the Body Redefines Clothing

Created: January 22, 2026 01:46 PM

For centuries, pregnancy was treated not as a visible condition, but as a disruption, something to be hidden, managed, or erased. Clothing became the first tool of negotiation.

Vintage Maternity: Fashion from the 1920s to the 1950s

Created: January 22, 2026 12:20 PM

Pregnancy has long been celebrated, yet for much of the 20th century, the pregnant body itself was expected to remain unseen. The history of vintage maternity fashion is not merely a story of clothing, but of social restraint, coded design, and the gradual negotiation between visibility and propriety.

The Pregnant Body in Art History

Created: December 26, 2025 01:19 PM

For centuries, art has favored bodies that appear resolved, balanced, controlled, complete. Pregnancy disrupts this logic entirely. It is a state of constant transformation, a form that refuses stillness and challenges ideals built on permanence and proportion. The pregnant body unsettles visual systems grounded in mastery and order, exposing how visibility, time, and bodily change have been carefully regulated. In confronting pregnancy, art is forced to confront instability itself, not as failure, but as a fundamental condition of life.

Pregnancy in Fashion: Visibility, Agency, and Form

Created: December 26, 2025 01:33 PM

Maternity fashion has long been framed as a category of discretion, designed to soften, disguise, or minimize bodily change. This article examines how contemporary fashion repositions pregnancy not as a problem to manage, but as a form to engage. Moving beyond size-based solutions, it traces how silhouette, agency, and design logic reshape the maternal body as an active subject rather than a concealed condition.