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The opening of the exhibition "Dress, Dreams, and Desire: Fashion and Psychoanalysis" at The Museum at FIT in New York, on September 10, 2025. (Getty Images)

The Guardian

12 November 2025

When you picked out an outfit this morning, did it feel like free will? Was it a series of deliberate choices that made it desirable to venture out into the world wearing said garment? Or was your decision a response to deeper subconscious forces? What if the choices we make about clothes are not our own conscious choices to make?

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