notes on glamour

Diotima spring/summer 2026 “bacchanal” collection, photo Alessandro Raimondo

Glamour is a poetic, material manifestation of a politic. As a tool, glamour can intimate a radical expression of desire — of sensuality. It resists definition, subverts ideology, and takes power in the self-actualization that is the moment of dressing and adorning oneself.

To think about glamour, I think first about what is excluded from the understanding of glamour. In what ways have I — Black, immigrant, queer — been kept at the margins of glamour?  What ideologies, rooted in systems of power, have denied me entry? And how might I use those very signifiers as a Trojan horse to reimagine, to reclaim, to conjure a new and unruly glamour?

Beauty and the subterranean, enshrined.

— Rachel Scott