How clothes can be revolutionary
Clothes are crucial to our sense of identity. Which is why being stripped of them is so humiliating.
Marion Hume is international fashion editor of The Australian Financial Review Magazine. One of the world's most incisive writers on the business of fashion, she has been covering the sector for more than three decades, writing for international newspapers and magazines as well as serving for a time as editor of Vogue Australia. She is based in London.
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