random fashion thoughts

[unwashed]

(Fashion) Design = Form > Function

[BSR]

agreed with my parisian friend on all points, incl Rick cashmere. mrb i would agree with you on Denis C for instance re cashmere

[Shucks]

PS: I realize that my tone seems a bit dry in writing, please add tongue in cheekiness and winks throughout, I'm not trying to be mean or anything

this is actually useful information - thanks for that - because yes, you can come across as quite abrasive in writing (said the pot to the kettle...).

[Faust]

don't forget that Galia has also Russian blood, and maybe selective hearing comes from there!

ok about c), i don't think it's English, it's just an academic bias, when I hear 'utility' i immediately think of the economical/philosophical notion. still, i think we can easily agree that function is both a very common property of garments, fashion or not, that fashion very rarely impacts on function in a positive manner (does not add to comfort), and hence that we obviously do not choose our garments using this criterion first.

also i wasn't directing my gentle sarcasms towards you, but sometimes i get the feeling that our talkative newcomers try to reinvent water. no wonder kunk (and I) feel a bit drown.

guilty as charged.

Of course, I understand what you mean about utility. My initial disagreement with Mirror&Rack was merely saying that footwear is not necessarily easier to buy online because it does not have fit issues the way clothing does.

Kunk is blue :(

Agreed on Dennis Colomb - wanted to get his cashmere top at Patron of the New and now regret missing my chance. Though in general cashmere has become so problematic, I am just as fine sticking to quality wool.

[mrbeuys]

Rick cache mire [...] has a tendency to pill like a mofo.

That I give you. But I have come to appreciate my Sunday afternoons of lint shaving my sweaters.

[Shucks]

how much is corrective surgery of shoulders and pecs? my body needs slight adjustment to better fit S/S 14 armholes.

[lowrey]

I don't know but I have shoulder impingement and I blame Carol.

[Shucks]

he probably meant for that to happen to you. caveat emptor.

[Dorje]

/\ that's great...

[Verdandi]

So the Creative Directors at Helmut Lang resigned. I know I shouldn't get my hopes up, considering the direction the label has taken, but I wonder who's going to take over since letting the label die won't be an option.

[Faust]

So the Creative Directors at Helmut Lang resigned. I know I shouldn't get my hopes up, considering the direction the label has taken, but I wonder who's going to take over since letting the label die won't be an option.

Whaaaa? Link?

[michael_kard]

That's crazy. They were undoubtedly successful at what they were doing so it's very surprising that they just stepped down. That said I will not miss them...

[Verdandi]

Faust, that was pretty much my reaction as well. I thought their apparel sells like hot cakes. I know a lot of women, who wear their stuff and they usually don't care much for fashion otherwise.

[Faust]

Yes, they do really well everywhere. But who knows what happens on the inside.

[DudleyGray]

While doing some research on tuberculosis, I ended up at the conspicuous consumption wiki page and found this:

Aggressive ostentation — In 2009, the television reporter Dick Meyer (CBS News) proposed that conspicuous consumption is a form of anger towards society, an “aggressive ostentation” that is an antisocial behaviour, which arose from the social alienation suffered by men, women, and families who feel they have become anonymous in and to their societies, which feeling of alienation is aggravated by the decay of the communitarian ethic essential to a person feeling him or herself part of the whole society.

Full article at here

There's a lot of unrelated stuff in the article, but it made me think about a sort of aggression and alienation in a lot of the aesthetics around here. I mean, the photos for most these designers aren't exactly a group of frat kids having a party but instead feature lone figures in voids or urban decay with descriptions like 'brutalist' and such.