Fashion in Design
I've turned into a t-shirt and jeans guy, but in a previous life, I used to enjoy nice threads. There's an article in the NYtimes that I found pretty upsetting. Celebrities who have been churning out new designer labels are flooding the markets and making it difficult for designers who have been working their tails off behind the scenes for years to break out.
This article resonates with my partially deep seated lack of respect for the majority of modern celebrities. A few celebrities such as Elizabeth Taylor and Audrey Hepburn will always remain classy in my mind. Sean Combs, J-Lo and the Olson twins wills always remain cheap in my mind. Sorry french dave. I'd be lying if I said that I don't enjoy ghetto tunes as much as the next guy, but the market is creating an industry that prevents the designer equivalent of Rachmaninoff from breaking through. Honestly, it's tragic.
I guess it's a reflection of what the public wants. Trashy cheap clothes. But wait. These folks are coming out with high end lines, with the olson twins selling a line called "The Row," at Barney's in New York. I just wonder who these people are. Who is willing to spend that kind of money for crap designs? It's a free country, but it makes me sad. It makes me shudder to think of future generations wearing Sean Combs suits. When did that become classy? I'd always dreamed of Zegna suits, paired with Thomas Pink shirts and Hermes ties. What about the beautifully crafted wedding dresses by Vera Wang that are ripped off by local dress-makers around the globe? It looks like name recognition supersedes talent and quality. Perhaps it's my own snobbery and bias in name recognition and supposed quality.
What do I know about fashion anyway?...how odd.
-bender
posted by Bender @ 6:21 AM
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2 Comments:
The only argument I'd have against that is that these new designer labels are only labels. They still offer good jobs to designers, only the designers aren't the CEO's or presidents but still usually handle all designs. Maybe in the beginning the celebrities handle a lot of the affairs but after a while they have their subordinates take over. The style of the clothes they produce is a reflection of the designers that these celebrities hire, not necessarily designed by the celebrities themselves, although it's still representing them.
It's the same way in the restaurant world. Chef's get celebrities involved for money and publicity, I'm sure the lead designers for these celebrity labels are doing the same thing.
i like that you wrote about fashion at six in the morning.
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