Anyway, the link for the article, and my favorite snippet from the piece, are below.
Why I hate fashion
"The goods lay unwrapped on my ordinary bed. They looked odd there. They didn't fit. The marketing doesn't follow you home."
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Fashion....
Is it odd that I find Tanya Gold's recent article in The Guardian (Why I Hate Fashion) both hilarious and familiar in sentiment? As a designer, my immediate instinct upon seeing the article title is to chalk Gold's title up to ignorance or maybe even bitterness. But after reading the whole article, which does occasionally steer towards the dramatic, I found that the message was one that so many women I know can relate to: exclusion. Even those deeply involved in the industry often feel that they have to become someone else in order to fit in....
Anyway, the link for the article, and my favorite snippet from the piece, are below.
Why I hate fashion
"The goods lay unwrapped on my ordinary bed. They looked odd there. They didn't fit. The marketing doesn't follow you home."
Anyway, the link for the article, and my favorite snippet from the piece, are below.
Why I hate fashion
"The goods lay unwrapped on my ordinary bed. They looked odd there. They didn't fit. The marketing doesn't follow you home."
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Thanks for the article link. A bit dramatic, to make it entertaining (and it was); but she raises some very valid points. There is a good and bad side to any industry; the bad side of fashion cuts a little deeper b/c it is tied in to our own self-image. It would be refreshing if more of the industry celebrated the beauty of healthy living (like eating) and stopped with all the absurd photoshop indulgence and shock factor. Oh and it would be great if they would quit putting nipples on mannequins...that is just creepy.
ReplyDeleteDon't even get me started on the Photoshop ridiculousness that has been getting worse and worse every season.....It almost seems as though people have really just become product placement machines. Sort of like saying "Don't worry about the little things you don't like about yourself that make you unique: we can make your eyes bigger, lips fuller, waist thinner. After we take your initial photo, we'll "fix" you, and then you'll be whatever we need you to be...."
ReplyDeleteAnd I totally agree with you on the mannequin nipple thing--they're unnecessary and REALLY distracting. Hahaha!
I choose to believe the mannequin nipples are simply illustrating a worst-case scenario for consumers...
ReplyDeleteThe article. As someone who is not only wrongly sized, but also wrongly-shaped for mainstream *and* high fashion, I completely get where this author is going with her article. Instead of presenting a well-thought argument on the dangers of remaining blind to the capitalistic - as opposed to artistic - driven marketing of fashion, she reveals herself to be a lot like a childlike, pouting whiner. Surely that doesn't help the cause...
Completely agree with FashionAvenger, too, by the way. Except for the nipple thing...obviously.