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Post by Deleted on Dec 18, 2012 19:09:31 GMT
I don't even want to click to see more, but all of these things do follow the fashion trends as the years go by. And examination of the past has not always been kind with a lot of the fashion trends, particularly from the 1980's.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 7, 2013 16:06:22 GMT
I watched Crazy, Stupid, Love last night, in which Ryan Gosling plays a player who is cooler than cool. This of course is reflected in his wardrobe, but I, in my fuddy-duddy way, thought the first suit in which he appeared was unattractively tight. Right? Wrong? Guys? click pic for more + article
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Post by mossie on Jan 7, 2013 19:16:36 GMT
That suit looks ridiculous on him. Although he is built like a bean pole the trousers are cut way to narrow, see how they gather at the knee. The jacket is pulling at the button. Pity my father is not still here, he was a tailor for about 60 years ;D ;D
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Post by Deleted on Jan 7, 2013 20:57:26 GMT
Yes, but fashion for thin people dictates tighter and tighter clothes in this century. I believe that part of the reason is just to annoy the rest of us.
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Post by tod2 on Jan 8, 2013 7:10:18 GMT
Not a good look - unless you couldn't help being caught in a rain storm - when you got home you found your suit had shrunk to that of a 14yr old ;D
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Post by Deleted on Jan 8, 2013 7:49:38 GMT
I thought it was amusing that for once the top fashion news here today doesn't concern a Hollywoood or pop music bimbo but the jacket the Lionel Messi wore to get his 4th consecutive Ballon d'Or from FIFA yesterday.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 8, 2013 17:02:13 GMT
Your dad probably would have reeled from the shock of seeing all that expensive tailoring in the service of making a suit look exactly as Tod describes it. It's not that I'm anti-innovation. I think Messi's suit in Kerouac's pic is a fun expression of his personality, plus, as this picture shows, very nicely made & fitted. The difference between it and the annoying tightness of the aforementioned suits is that Messi's is still a suit. The others are trying to make suits do stuff for which they're not fitted, for want of a better term.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 28, 2013 16:49:52 GMT
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Post by bjd on May 5, 2015 19:20:16 GMT
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Post by htmb on May 5, 2015 19:41:46 GMT
S happened to walk by the Met beforehand and saw all the security guys arriving.
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Post by Deleted on May 5, 2015 19:55:46 GMT
You mean the fashion police?
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Post by Deleted on May 5, 2015 19:59:07 GMT
I think I would have half of them shot just for the makeup and hairstyle fails before I even look at their appalling outfits.
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Post by htmb on May 5, 2015 19:59:41 GMT
Yeah, right.
I was talking to her on the phone when several black SUVs arrived carrying blacked-suited men, plus men in fatigues. She also said there was a large tent set up in front of the Met. She was going to go back later to ogle the fashionistas, but never made it.
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Post by htmb on May 5, 2015 20:05:08 GMT
I took a quick peek, but what I saw was so hideous I had to close the link.
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Post by Deleted on May 5, 2015 20:17:15 GMT
I am not interested in fashion and don't really participate in these kinds of threads, but I was just struck how much Sarah Jessica Parker is looking like Dame Edith Sitwell.
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Post by bixaorellana on May 5, 2015 20:24:03 GMT
It says something when Lady Gaga is the most attractively and appropriately dressed.
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Post by lagatta on May 6, 2015 19:53:57 GMT
Even Gong Li looks bad in her get-up!
Lizzie, I'm not interested in "fashion" in this sense either, though I do love beautiful fabrics and clothes; if only I could afford the ones I crave. Marked by simplicity, not by this gaudy excess.
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 30, 2022 5:03:06 GMT
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Post by bjd on Dec 30, 2022 8:15:05 GMT
Given that most of what Westwood designed was weird and completely unwearable, I guess classifying her as an artist makes more sense than calling her a fashion designer.
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 30, 2022 16:31:07 GMT
Great fashion designers are artists in the sense of taking the known and pushing or even exploding it in a different direction. Pieces from their yearly collections are hardly ever garments that will be snapped up by the public. But elements of those designs enter into fashion and even become iconic. In common with all art, fashion pulls in references from all over. If you click around the thumbnails on this page, you'll see influences from Marie Antoinette to Dior's "New Look".
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 30, 2022 16:58:23 GMT
It should also be noted that people are almost never artists if they are not controversial.
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Post by casimira on Dec 31, 2022 14:28:10 GMT
Great fashion designers are artists in the sense of taking the known and pushing or even exploding it in a different direction. Pieces from their yearly collections are hardly ever garments that will be snapped up by the public. But elements of those designs enter into fashion and even become iconic. In common with all art, fashion pulls in references from all over. If you click around the thumbnails on this page, you'll see influences from Marie Antoinette to Dior's "New Look". I was trying to find the proper wording to say exactly what you convey Bixa. Many of the changing styles that we see year to year are adaptations of the "exploding" elements from "great fashion designers" that the general public interpret and emulate even if it's just one single unique element. I am always fascinated by this. It's how trends become what they are. While I was never into trendy per say, I would often incorporate some design element of what was fashionable or trendy at any given time. (And as we well know these trends repeat themselves over time).
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 3, 2023 19:36:34 GMT
Fashion designer Paco Rabanne has died.
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 13, 2023 20:31:07 GMT
Fashion desinger Mary Quant has died. She gave us the mini skirt.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 13, 2023 22:24:59 GMT
First Al Jaffee and now Mary Quant -- more pieces of my youth falling away. Edited to add that I just looked at the video. She was 93, which completely surprised me.
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Post by Kimby on Jul 24, 2023 23:14:34 GMT
Not a red carpet, but a fashion runway. We’re in the midst of a long dry spell between award shows, so I thought followers of this thread might enjoy a preview of what we can look forward to next spring. Some of these dresses I’d LIKE to see on the red carpet. fb.watch/l_LbPR0XCU/?mibextid=HSR2mg
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 26, 2023 1:43:38 GMT
Some of the dresses in that video are pretty, but essentially they all look like not only variations on theme, but also like dated ideas (padded shoulders) with a new & silly (caped dresses) overlay.
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Post by bjd on Jul 26, 2023 6:54:35 GMT
I had the same impression as Bixa -- mostly pretty dresses. I don't really see who the target is, certainly not celebrities.
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Post by Kimby on Aug 3, 2023 17:34:13 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 3, 2023 22:32:18 GMT
Whenever I see one of these high fashion shows, I try to figure out how the various elements will eventually wind up in mainstream looks. It was hard to pick anything out in this one. There were a couple of boxy bolero jackets and at least one of those tucked-under skirts, but those items are really fashion standards that get trotted out every few years.
The weirdest things in this show were all the fake hands featured. What's that about?
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