The word, “fashion” is descended from the same roots as “fasten” and “facilitate” and once meant something along the lines of “creation by means of bundling and tying” but has (in the last 50 or so years) come to be synonymous with “trendy.” Styles now go in and out of fashion. Worn strives to get back to that earlier meaning, and discover what is of lasting value about clothing and style.

Worn plays a unique role by bringing a political, environmental, historical and cultural context to fashion. Pushing boundaries of collaboration and authorship with fashion magazine tropes like the photo story, Worn expands traditional relationships between models, designers, writers, photographers and illustrators. By exploring where art and fashion overlap, connecting with Fashion scholars and artists, and paying attention to how what is worn gets made, interpreted, transformed, disseminated and copied, Worn opens new avenues in art theory.

Worn issues appear twice a year, in fall and spring, but our content is not time driven. We don’t discuss the newest collections or the latest trends, but perfur to take an more encompassing look at the whole of fashion. Consequently, our subject matter does not stale date and back issues will be as interesting in five years as they are today.

Worn is a forum for our writers to share their views on fashion past and a the impact of the present. Our contributors’ perspectives are informed not only by experience in the fashion world; writers and photographers are musicians, artists, designers, academics and, well, writers and photographers. Articles offer both editorial and substantive information about things like designer and garment histories, theory, textiles, tools, scenes, cultures and subcultures. We’re also sharing what we see as inspiration, motivation, how-to advice, and good fashion sense.

Each issue measures 8.5×11 inches and is 48 pages long, half in colour, half in black and white. It is offset printed on semi-gloss paper.

Click on each photo for an album taken by a different person at the party.

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