Fashion has always been political

---

Sharing an image by an unknown artist, taken from the book ‘Encyclopedia of Clothing and Fashion’ (Scribner Library of Daily Life). The image is captioned, British soldiers in naval uniforms attack Malay villagers. Indigenous peoples were often considered inferior by colonizers, in part because of their different dress practices, causing dress to become a status-defining mechanism.

Labour of Craft:: Unity of Body & Mind

---

“Intellectual labor tears a man out of human society. A craft, on the other hand, leads him towards men.”

- Franz Kafka

Kafka, the great writer, thus problematize the relation between intellectual and physical labour, implicitly questioning the assumption that physical labour lacks intel