Top Rank Magazine

Our second episode, “Elements of Style,” is a post-Fashion Week reflection consisting of conversations about the politics of fashion imagery, beauty, modeling, and self-styling. Co-hosts Marcel Rosa-Salas and Isabel Flower ask what fashion can teach us about configurations of power in contemporary society, and discuss the industry as an institution that produces culture through collective knowledge. In conversations with each other, fashion industry professionals, and scholars, Isabel and Marcel seek some insight into this mammoth question. On this episode you'll hear from: Brandi Thompson Summers, Assistant professor of African American Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University Christelle de Castro, photographer, filmmaker, art director, and creative director for Top Rank Stephanie Sadre-Orafai, assistant professor of Anthropology at the University of Cincinnati Nafisa Kaptownwala, founder of modeling agency Lorde Inc. Paloma Elsesser, model, writer, and student Eric Darnell Pritchard, Assistant Pr