Arts & Entertainment

The Best Hands in the Guild Are Banned From the Guild.

Pia Consalvo sews the finest seam in Neo-Milan and cannot be licensed to sell it. The Guild says the trades are defined by embodied competence. The atelier that would not hire her has quietly commissioned a hand built to be worse.

By Aurora Vogue
21 years, 11 months and 13 days from now
Arts & Entertainment

A Thousand Dresses Turned Grey at Once, and Nobody Chose It

Walking through the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II last night, I caught myself counting charcoal. The Gala for Applied Synthetics had just opened its memorial hour for the laborers lost in the orbital loom collapse, and within perhaps four seconds of the announcement every dress, suit and tunic in the hall had settled into the same […]