Fashion, runways, and normal shame hiding - NSF56k

Elki

Fashion, clothing, threads. And, I suppose, other rags people use on the regular. It's all here.

Share your favorite pieces, street and runway fashion, talk about it, and stuff you wear. Ask for advice if you need some.

Rules:
Don't be an asshole.
Consider using spoiler tags if you're posting a bunch of pictures to make it easier to scroll.

My recent years favorite is




Guo Pei. Insanely opulent sensibility that veers into the cartoonish, but it somehow gets past all my triggers for the garish and obscene - instead it feels like I'm taking a trip to a fantastical land.

Spring 2017:

Presented at "Conciergerie, where Marie Antoinette was imprisoned immediately prior to her beheading." Yes, I will eat cake.



Fall/Winter 2010:

The title for the show was The Arabian 1002th Night, and it earns its name.

Elki

TNR put up a review today for a new MoMA exhibition.

The exhibition is a series of cavernous rooms containing identical mannequins holding individual articles of clothing and almost nothing else. According to the show’s literature, the vitrines display the clothes according to three “tiers”: archetype, stereotype, and prototype. The classical version of each garment is represented by the stereotype, which is then contextualized by accompanying materials (wall texts and so on) to convey a sense of the historical archetype. Then, for some of the clothes, a “prototype” version is exhibited, too: a design meant to encourage new innovations.

Unfortunately, none of that is available for the viewer to understand. We see three items in a row. And the vast scope of the show means that there is not enough space made for the historical archetype. We are thus largely left with stereotypes of objects that are already familiar to us. The attempt at universality flattens the unique history of each item into a banal set of first principles, namely that fashion “touches everyone, everywhere.” But this tells us little about how clothing design works, or why it is important. It makes for a limp survey, made all the more frustrating by the great ideas hiding in its uninspired execution.

https://newrepublic.com/article/145618/moma-doesnt-get-fashion