SHOWstudio: Ugly Project
"Inspired by the deliberate awkwardness visible on high fashion runways in recent years, SHOWstudio unpicks certain designers' fascination with pushing the boundaries of taste and redefining luxury using prints, fabrics and motifs that have connotations of vulgarity, cheapness, garishness or kitsch."
The Ugly project features a film directed by Ruth Hogben and styled by Robbie Spencer with garments from brands such as Junya Watanabe, Schiaparelli, Prada, Alexander McQueen, Christopher Kane, and Rick Owens to show fashion's obsession with the grotesque and the uncanny.
There are also interesting essays and interviews from the likes of Valerie Steele, Alexander Fury, Lou Stoppard, Judith Clark, and other journalists and historians. The essays attempt to explore the origins of deliberate ugliness, the allure of it, its social impact and influence, and prominent advocates of the concept. My personal favorites are from: Lucy Norris, Ana Kinsella, Alexander Fury, and Valerie Steele.
"Inspired by the deliberate awkwardness visible on high fashion runways in recent years, SHOWstudio unpicks certain designers' fascination with pushing the boundaries of taste and redefining luxury using prints, fabrics and motifs that have connotations of vulgarity, cheapness, garishness or kitsch."
The Ugly project features a film directed by Ruth Hogben and styled by Robbie Spencer with garments from brands such as Junya Watanabe, Schiaparelli, Prada, Alexander McQueen, Christopher Kane, and Rick Owens to show fashion's obsession with the grotesque and the uncanny.
There are also interesting essays and interviews from the likes of Valerie Steele, Alexander Fury, Lou Stoppard, Judith Clark, and other journalists and historians. The essays attempt to explore the origins of deliberate ugliness, the allure of it, its social impact and influence, and prominent advocates of the concept. My personal favorites are from: Lucy Norris, Ana Kinsella, Alexander Fury, and Valerie Steele.
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