No matter how much or how little you care about what you wear, your sartorial choices are inextricably stitched into your social, cultural and personal identities. Clothing not only dictates how we define ourselves and relate to others – throughout history, it’s also been a mode of expression, resistance, revolution and disruption. 

Put on your Sunday best for Griffith Review 90: Best Dressed, which goes behind the seams to unpick the many paradoxes of fashion.  

Edited by Carody Culver with contributing editor Maggie Zhou.

_{Cover image: Gerwyn Davies Adobe (2022), archival pigment print, edition 5+1 AP}