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Worn Fashion Journal is throwing another Slowdance, and this one is gonna be deadly!!  Read on for an interview with Wornette Alexandra and comment on the post by October 26th with your favourite Hallowe’en costume of all time (could be one you’ve worn or one you’ve seen) to be entered to win a pair of tickets to the dance.

Interview by Amy Borkwood

For those who don’t know too much about WORN, can you tell me a bit about the concept of the magazine, and what it means to be a “critical fashion journal”?
WORN discusses the cultures, subcultures, histories, and personal stories of fashion. We strive to embody a place between pop culture magazine and academic journal that opens new avenues in art and fashion theory by hovering where these two ideas intersect, connecting with fashion scholars and artists. We pay attention to how what is worn is made, interpreted, transformed, disseminated, and copied.

WORN #9 is coming out soon—what can I look forward to in the new issue?
We’ve got a really great issue with all the beloved regular features like Haikus and Everything I Know About Fashion I Learned from My Mother. We’ve got a great Nancy Drew fashion editorial, and informative articles about personalities Valentina and the Marchesa Casati, plus a guide to collars, a look at the gendering of pink and blue, and a look at 1940s beauty propaganda.

What should I expect from the upcoming release party?  Should I dress up?
Our issue 9 Release Party (On October 31st at The Dovercourt House (805 Dovercourt Rd, Toronto) is the Slow Dance of The Living Dead! It’s at the wonderful dance hall Dovercourt House, which of course will be haunted for the evening! There’s $3.00  Mill Street beer, cupcakes and plenty of Halloween romance. Guests are encouraged to show up dead! Anything dead is great: dead celebrities, dead concepts, or just your favorite zombie. Imagine a sea of dead people slowly swaying to Halloween hits. It’s going to be a blast! There’s gift bags for the first thrity guests, and everyone gets a copy of the new issue.

The WORN slow-dances are really popular (and so fun—I’ve been to two already, and will definitely be at this one)—can you explain where the concept originated, and idea behind the “slow dance”?
The Montreal Slow Dance team presents the slow dance as “the hipster’s alternative to speed-dating. It’s high school with a happy ending, and it’s queer, senior, and couple-friendly too.” Everyone gets a dance card with a list of the evening’s ballads. You sign up with other cute corpses for specific songs. There’s fast-dancing breaks also, but the hug-n-shuffle slow dancing is the best part.

What can we WORN fans expect in some upcoming issues?
Issue 10 is looking great, and we’ve got a stalker issue planned in the near future, where we’ll each try to interview some of hard-to-contact fashion heroes. We’re also going to take a look at the garment industry and how it’s changing in the global economy, and the negative effects of our society’s constant demand for more, cheaper, and faster.

What has been inspiring the WORN staff lately?  Any fashion obsessions or local style faves?
As always, the Worn Crush section of our blog focuses on our current loves in the fashion industry in Toronto, nationally, and abroad! Right now we’re all busy trying to come up with killer (or killed, I suppose) costumes for the release party.

SLOW DANCE OF THE LIVING DEAD
ISSUE 9 LAUNCH PARTY
The Dovercourt House (805 Dovercourt Rd, Toronto).
Suspend your animation from 9 PM until your 2 AM zombie march home.

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www.wornjournal.com
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