Fashion: Manipulation
January 24th, 2008
I think it is all manipulation, and that we either go along with it or we get angry and refuse to. This, however, is manipulation I can respect. Pleats, tucks and hemming– beautiful.
This is to me a stunning dress. LaCroix often looks like he is making a fool of his woman and himself, as if somehow we are all potentially jokes. The star of the British series “Absolutely Fabulous” was infamously horribly dressed in the 1980s in her adored LaCroix. This year’s collection offers plenty of that kind of expensive laugh, but this dress is no joking matter. Beautiful.
Everything that is important about that dress has to do with masterful manipulation of the fabric. You can see more on Givenchy mastery at the UK Telegraph coverage.
This from Gustavo Lins, on the other hand, speaks of manipulation of perception.
This I enthusiastically enjoy, copy, and clap my hands together for. The wearing of normal clothes that vary slightly from what we have known as normal suits me in every way.
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1. jessica | January 29th, 2008 at 6:57 pm
i too like the thrid one, esp. the color
2. Snowpea | January 30th, 2008 at 4:04 am
I quite liked some of the Elie Saab creations, notably this golden ombre dress
3. Snowpea | January 30th, 2008 at 4:05 am
which of course I could not HTML right into the text and it got dropped from my post. See link above
4. Snowpea | January 30th, 2008 at 4:06 am
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/fashion/graphics/2008/01/23/saab/e7.jpg
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