Fashion issue
Fashion designers latest muse.
Every fashion designer has a muse in which they envision their cloths on the “perfect figure”. Andrej Pejic has been described as the latest muse due to “having the perfect female body”, but Andrej Pejic is in fact a male model. Pejic is part of fashion’s mew “femiman” trend, the latest in a new crop of gender-bending models that have risen to fame in the past few seasons. It has been said that Andrej is the leader of new gender fluidity in fashion, in which traditional male and female attitudes are starting to matter less. It’s a message that is being slowly adapted industry-wide.
Throughout fashion history there has always been the perfect female size debate, but this delicate issues has always had a devastating impact on society. With the size zero issue was debated and publicized in the media it sparked a huge debate on the effects of runway models and eating disorders.
Recently the focus on the runway was showing a shift towards natural size models i.e. Beth Ditto lead singer from The Gossip rocked the runway at Jean Paul Gaultier spring/summer 2011 in Paris. Though this was a shock move by Gaultier it was thought that this would spark media frenzy into the runway size debate yet again, but much like fashion itself the trend came and went. It seams bizarre that it was at Jean Paul Gaultier’s autumn/winter 2011 collection in Paris that he would make such a shift on the type of modals used to promote his designs.
I find it hard to believe that Andrej Pejic is considered the perfect female figure as in my eye’s it is a complete contradiction of what a female figure actually is. The natural female form consists of breasts and curves and only through surgery and extreme diets could any truly natural female figure modify their body to have this “perfect female figure”. I feel that this will spark the size zero, extreme diet fads again and could damage the future of fashion considering the average size now becoming size 12-14.
Sunday, 13 March 2011
Fashion Issues
Kate Moss smoking on the catwalk.
Marc Jacob design this years Louis Vuitton autumn/winter 2011 collection in Paris where among the 67 modals was Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell. His collection was inspired by Claridges hotel in London and Le Bristol in Paris and the type of people that came out of the elevators. These could have been anyone ranging from wives to maids and hookers. He represented this by using the two poles fashion and fetishisms with bags. The modals would arrive in elevators opened by the bellboys and walk the square runway before exiting on the stairs to the side of the elevators.
Naomi Campbell was styled in a sweater and skirt combo with a hotel doorman style cap. Kate Moss closed the show in typical rebellious fashion wearing a skimpy black short body suit with textured arms, smoking on a cigarette.
Although the fashion shows was a huge success there was a lot of controversy over Kate’s smoking. The date of the show 09/03/11 is also this year National non -smoking day. The first non-smoking day was held on Ash Wednesday in 1984 and now takes place on the second Wednesday of March. It is publicized as an annual health awareness day that is intended to help smokers that want to quit. Each year the campaign promotes a slogan and in 2010 it was “Break Free” but this years was a simple “Time To Quit”. With this and the new actions that the government is setting out to put into place, banning the display of tobacco for this stunt to be so public many people were outraged. Kate has taken a lot of criticism for smoking on the runway but I do not believe that is entirely her fault. The theatrics of the show are devised by a show producer and finalized with the designer. If Kate was told to smoke then the blame is not entirely hers.
Kate Moss smoking on the catwalk.
Marc Jacob design this years Louis Vuitton autumn/winter 2011 collection in Paris where among the 67 modals was Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell. His collection was inspired by Claridges hotel in London and Le Bristol in Paris and the type of people that came out of the elevators. These could have been anyone ranging from wives to maids and hookers. He represented this by using the two poles fashion and fetishisms with bags. The modals would arrive in elevators opened by the bellboys and walk the square runway before exiting on the stairs to the side of the elevators.
Naomi Campbell was styled in a sweater and skirt combo with a hotel doorman style cap. Kate Moss closed the show in typical rebellious fashion wearing a skimpy black short body suit with textured arms, smoking on a cigarette.
Although the fashion shows was a huge success there was a lot of controversy over Kate’s smoking. The date of the show 09/03/11 is also this year National non -smoking day. The first non-smoking day was held on Ash Wednesday in 1984 and now takes place on the second Wednesday of March. It is publicized as an annual health awareness day that is intended to help smokers that want to quit. Each year the campaign promotes a slogan and in 2010 it was “Break Free” but this years was a simple “Time To Quit”. With this and the new actions that the government is setting out to put into place, banning the display of tobacco for this stunt to be so public many people were outraged. Kate has taken a lot of criticism for smoking on the runway but I do not believe that is entirely her fault. The theatrics of the show are devised by a show producer and finalized with the designer. If Kate was told to smoke then the blame is not entirely hers.
Saturday, 12 March 2011
Below are some of the pages from my draping project. This project has been challenging in many ways as draping is an unknown area of fashion, but overall this project was an enjoyment to learn something new, not only draping itself but also to create a design manual using the software InDesign by Adobe.
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