Fashion

Dressing the Dead

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My mother-in-law and I were not close, but when she died I was tasked with this surprisingly intimate choice.

Grief-Inspired Jewelry

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From lapel pins to cremains jewelry, these accessories can help honor loss with something beautiful.

Survivor Gilt: 6 Ways To Make Inherited Items Work for You

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In an excerpt from the Modern Loss book, stylist Stacy London tells us how to repurpose and reinterpret the fashion and furniture your loved ones left behind.

Object Amnesia

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We always had too many of my late father’s iconic dress shirts — until the Smithsonian wanted one, and we realized we had none.

The ‘Funeral Clothes Project’

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How (and why) I'm turning old funeral frocks into fine art.

Death Becomes Us: It’s Time to Reinvent Mourning Attire

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A museum exhibit and a feature film provided a challenge to our columnist — and to the unorthodox focus group she convened: How to modernize grief garb.