Tag: Fashion
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Bad Bunny’s Botanical, Eco-Rasquache Aesthetic
in EssaysFrom sugarcane plantations to broken electricity poles, Bad Bunny presents and protests the historical and lived realities of Puerto Rico. Isaac Salazar argues that his aesthetic is a form of eco-rasquache and a celebration of collective survival under precarity.
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The Gremlincore Aesthetic Might be the Climate Solution We Need
in EssaysInternet aesthetic niches are not often seen as climate solutions. However, Madi Whaley argues that the gremlincore aesthetic, focusing on lesser-loved things in nature, serves as an environmental ethic rooted in abundance.
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How a $750 Down Jacket is Dividing College Campuses
in EssaysWhen students critique outdoor fashion on campus, their views reveal gendered, ethnic, and regional stereotypes at play in the local meaning of international brands.