http://www.vestoj.com/blog This is a space where the sartorial matters. Unapologetically highbrow, we still make plenty of room for glamour! Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:12:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Yippie! You can currently find the first issue of Vestoj at, amongst others, these following locations. The price is circa 150 SEK or 15 Euros: Stockholm: Konst-ig NK Bokhandel Hedengrens Akademibokhandeln Skrapan Papercut (which also has an online store at www.papercutshop.se) Malmo: Konsthallen Kulturcentrum As well as at Presstop and select Pressbyran and 7Eleven in Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmo!  Oslo Abookadabra Paris: Agora Press Colette Palais de ... http://www.vestoj.com/blog/?p=155 Words and Images: Ruth Hinkel-Pevzner " "It was hot and us kids were squashed in the backseat going to the beach for the first time. But sitting side by side was all the better to admire him close up, his big curls, and especially those new shorts of material never before seen, little ... http://www.vestoj.com/blog/?p=130 "A Klee painting named ‘Angelus Novus’ shows an angel looking as though he is about to move away from something he is fixedly contemplating. His eyes are staring, his mouth is open, his wings are spread. This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward ... http://www.vestoj.com/blog/?p=112 Saint Augustine "There are three tenses or times: past, present and future. These are three realities in the mind, but nowhere else as far as I can see, for as the present of past things is memory, the present of present things is attention, and the present of future things is ... http://www.vestoj.com/blog/?p=108 The first issue of Vestoj will be themed around 'Material Memories' (or the past present in the future) and deal with issues such as real, and imagined, nostalgia, historicism in fashion and personal memories of much loved pieces of clothing. Because how many of us haven't felt the twinge of remorse when we ... http://www.vestoj.com/blog/?p=106 All articles must relate to sartorial issues. We are interested in people’s relationship to their clothes, and fashion’s relationship to identity. We must bridge academia and industry. We will place academia and industry ... http://www.vestoj.com/blog/?p=94 Words: Haidee Findlay-Levin, Image: Miyako Ishiuchi Excerpt: "In the last years of her mother’s life, Ishiuchi photographed her mother’s feet, hands, sagging breasts, scared and aged skin crisscrossed with wrinkles – a finely woven tapestry of life. But even more telling are the images captured after her death, when the artist was ... http://www.vestoj.com/blog/?p=38 Words: Professor Peter McNeil, Image: Courtesy of Professor Peter McNeil Excerpt: "The Duke was unconventional because of his subject position. He could break sartorial rules because he was the ruler who no longer had to keep up a pre-ordained appearance. All of this was possible precisely because he was a former king, ... http://www.vestoj.com/blog/?p=34 Words: Professor Patrizia Calefato, Image: Elsa Ahlbom Fischer & Nacho Alegre Excerpt: "Wearing second-hand clothing, recycling garments and styles of previous generations, listening to old music remixed into new tracks, re-elaborating lines and forms, re-living old “contemporary myths” by re-proposing them in the market and in the imagery: all of those practices ... http://www.vestoj.com/blog/?p=32 As told to: Anja Cronberg Excerpt: "Fast forward to the future. My aunt Dorothy is living in L.A. and she must be in her sixties by now. I’m in my twenties and for some reason I’m also in L.A. and so I get a chance to meet her again. And as I ... http://www.vestoj.com/blog/?p=24