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Dirty Looks: Desire and Decay in Fashion

Emma Wichert

2026.2.6Fashion Theory-The Journal of Dress Body & Culture

DOI: 10.1080/1362704x.2026.2623791

Abstract

Moving through Dirty Looks: Desire and Decay in Fashion, the visitor is tempted to wipe their hands on their trousers: with each passing room in the Barbican Art Gallery, the cracks in the white pl...

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WICHERT, Emma. Dirty looks: Desire and decay in fashion. Fashion Theory-The Journal of Dress Body & Culture, 2026: 1–9.