Fashion

So I am having this new found obsession with fashion, yeah yeah, I know I'm not that stylish or whatever, but I really appreciate fashion now as a form of art. I understand the fact that fashion is a business, and designers need to make clothes that people would want to wear and therefore the clothes must be saleable, it must make money! But the fact that money plays such an important role in fashion in a way degrades fashion as a form of art. I've been watching The Fashion Show, basically a copy of Project Runway, and there is one contestant on the show that I think is phenomenal. His designs are very conceptual, they are very three dimensional, very architectural, but his designs are not always appreciated by the judges because they are too conceptual, too complicated to understand, too nonconventional, too abstract. I just think it's such a shame that one's artistic vision has to be restrained and controlled by the standards of the fashion industry. Just because you wouldn't wear it doesn't mean its not good art, just because you wouldn't put a certain painting in your house doesn't mean it's not a good painting. Kinda sucks, just another way how money infiltrates the minds of people and everything in this society.

Here are some of his pieces from his final collection. His theme was indigenous people wearing western clothing. Very very interesting. Not very wearable, but I have so much appreciation for it.



The more "wearable" pieces

<---I REALLY like this one




Okay, that is all. Backt to MCAT