Ava Aguiar

Written By Garb Berkeley

class of 2025

Media studies

favorite thrift find? I recently came across an old leather juicy couture clutch at repurposed vintage store in New York. It had a huge gold buckle on the front - it is ugly in the most perfect way

if you could bring back a fashion trend, which would you bring back and why? I would say shoulder pads - I think the structure and silhouette they create is super interesting and really powerful. I’ve recently purchased my first little leather piece with them and can’t wait to style it.

 
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No Form Without Function: A Fashionable Junction
No Form Without Function: A Fashionable Junction

Accessories and their labeling as such may ebb and flow through and between a spectrum of pure utility and bodily decor. Accessories may be a perfect semblance of both, or stray far to one side or the other, but at least ONE of these distinctions must be present. Above all, they must be, in technicality, unnecessary for basic clothing and even stylistic needs.

GYARU!
GYARU!

What is gyaru?

“Gyaru,” derived from the English word “gal,” is a Japanese fashion subculture. Gyaru emerged in the 1970s and gained popularity in the 1990s. Gyaru is a nonconformist subculture, and a core element of gyarus is rebelling against traditional beauty standards. At a time where Japanese women were held to societal standards that required them to appear dainty and modest, gyarus started adopting different forms of expression to oppose these standards.

Viewing Fashion Through a Phone with 16 Hours of Screentime
Viewing Fashion Through a Phone with 16 Hours of Screentime

Dusty screens and sticky desks, pocket protectors, and a mother’s looming watch from above the basement where one would lie. To be chronically online once meant to be a reject, a weirdo, a creep even.

The Tradwife Resurgence—Your Least Favorite Guy’s Favorite Trend for You
The Tradwife Resurgence—Your Least Favorite Guy’s Favorite Trend for You

Everything cycles: trends, styles, reproductive rights—and after the results of the 2024 election, so too do presidents. Amid the uncertainty of the last few months, a time marked by presidential campaigns with women’s reproductive rights at the forefront of debate, emerged a trend cycling all the way back to the 1950s: the tradwife.

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