Business, Industry & Capability Insights — Fabian Hirose

The Mature Masculinity in Fashion Systems

Blue-collar and badly educated men in rich countries have not adapted well to changes in trade, technology and equality.

Over the past couple of days I have highlighted the urgent need for a deeper examination of the emotional and practical challenges that women and LGBT+people face in the fashion industry. However, they are not the only ones that are carrying the consequences. Many blue-collar and less well educated men in the UK are finding it difficult to adapt to the profound shifts in the nature of their work following changes in international trade, technology and equality law.

Industry, Capability, BusinessFabian Hirose30 July 2015fashion, men, development

The Homophobia of Fashion

The implicit emotional memories and rules in fashion systems.

Nine out of ten people are in support of the laws introduced in 2003 protecting lesbians and gay men from discrimination at work, yet recent Stonewall research has found that nearly one in five lesbian and gay people, almost 350,000 employees in Britain, have experienced bullying from their colleagues because of their sexual orientation (Serves You Right).

Business, Capability, IndustryFabian Hirose29 July 2015London, UKfashion, development, lgbtq

Pregnancy, Miscarriages, Abortions & Child-Free Women in Fashion

A new study has found that thousands of new mums in the UK are forced to leave their jobs due to discrimination.

Yesterday both Harriet Minter in The Guardian and Radhika Sanghani in The Telegraph highlighted that, 54,000 British women face bullying or betrayal at the workplace when they are pregnant or returning to work from maternity leave.

Business, Capability, IndustryFabian Hirose28 July 2015fashion, women, development, Life

Dialogue Between Fashion & Death

Weekend Read / Giacomo Leopardi and the Thin Veil Between Fashion and Mortality

The Romantic ‘Dialogue between Fashion and Death’ is curious and resonating work that deals with the powerful connection between dress and mortality. The piece presents ‘Fashion’ as a fictional character in conversation with ‘Death’, that is, like Death, actively responsible for human suffering. Conceived by the Italian poet, essayist, and philosopher Giacomo Leopardi (1798–1837), it has since been adopted into the context of fashion discourse as a powerful rendering of fashion’s capacity to engage with our own transience.

IndustryFabian Hirose26 July 2015London, UKfashion, development, literature, inspirationComment

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