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Denim’s Social Construction: Will Toney at Kiosk Gallery

Denim is a baseline of modern history. As much a part of the Western canon as television or sugar, it is the underlying current through which trend, comfort, work, protest, and desire runs. A clothing option that is strangely idiosyncratic as it transcends racial and class lines, it is branding pivots between affordability and aspiration. A microcosm of the history of denim as an anti-consumerist…

Denim’s Social Construction: Will Toney at Kiosk Gallery

Denim is a baseline of modern history. As much a part of the Western canon as television or sugar, it is the underlying current through which trend, comfort, work, protest, and desire runs. A clothing option that is strangely idiosyncratic as it transcends racial and class lines, it is branding pivots between affordability and aspiration. A microcosm of the history of denim as an anti-consumerist…