I think I would like to
refer to this new genre of fashion as “fashion Misogyny!” fashion designed by a
designer whose single vision is to make women look like fools and then there is
of course that extreme possibility that he hates women and this is their
punishment.
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The kool aid has been
consumed by the fashion media “He is not one of those designers pretending to be
underground-edgy or ironic à la Vetements. His talent has an aura of sincere
naïveté and idealism, tinged with a slightly melancholic romance.” Maybe it’s a mind altering substance and not the
lethal Kool Aid of the Jim Jones variety! Do you think by naïveté they mean not a lick of any clue as to how women like to
look or why they wear clothes?]
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In all fairness,
no the collection is not as totally absurd as its direct relatives but hell,
imagine a 5’4 women in most of these clothes. Talk about swallowed up! Yes,
there are pieces that might be imagined on a real human hum but as a whole, as
a collection, it is not very appealing. What troubles is me is that I can
almost see what these clothes would look like if they were scaled to a more
realistic and consumer based proportion but then it would be so boring as to be
stultifying.
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Hence, over
scaled, overrated and unattractive clothes get lauded and applauded simply because
the fashion media needs hype. The retailers need clothes to sell. In reality
there are some looks that resemble the wardrobe of a crazy lady who lives down
the street from me. She walks this decrepit
old king Charles spaniel while she shields her head fill of platinum extensions
with a parasol, wears thrift shop hand-me-downs, all worn with her stretch-out
ballet slippers. Oh yes, this is aspirational fashion at its finest moment!!
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