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Call it what it is: Jhumkas or vintage accessories?

Call it what it is: Jhumkas or vintage accessories?

The fashion industry’s ongoing erasure of Indian craftsmanship, as seen through the popularisation of the South Asian Jewellery staple: Jhumkas

Frida Kahlo and the rebel commodity

Does consumer capitalism and modern feminism appropriate its icons wrongly? Madeleine Jones casts a critical eye over the use of Frida Kahlo merely as a fashionable image