Stephane Rollan S/S 2012 Haute-Couture Runway Details
FANS SELF
DEAR GOD THIS IS SO HOT
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Zoe Leonard, Frontal View, Geoffrey Beene Fashion Show, 1990
“I wanted to photograph fashion shows, I had all these ideas about adornment and entrapment, theories about buttons and corsetting. So, I snuck into a bunch of the collections — the big fall fashion shows. I had absolutely no intention of looking up anyone’s skirt. I shot tons of pictures — well over a hundred rolls of film. The most charged moments were completely unexpected. When a model’s dress flew up and I could see her underwear. That was interesting. Those turned out to be the best pictures. I worked with those and dropped the rest. At Documenta, it was also largely instinctive. When I first went to Kassel, the Neue Galerie was not one of the sites offered to me. But something intrigued and bothered me about the paintings. The sober, airless rooms, the satiny wallpaper. I thought this could be interesting. I had feelings I wanted to get at, but I wasn’t sure how. I wanted to bring myself into the gallery. And a strong female presence, address women as artists, as objects of art (models), as viewers of art. The paintings all seemed like a monologue, all going one way. I wanted to inject my point of view, make it a conversation. I wanted to make something positive and strong. The museum made me uncomfortable, and I wanted to get at that. See if there was a way I could change it. As a kid, I wanted to be Van Gogh. But sometimes at the Met, I would want to be one of the beautiful women in the paintings. I was torn. Do I want to be Picasso or do I want to be one of these beautiful women. Which is more satisfying? Do I even have that choice? I used to leaf through this one book of Man Ray photographs in a virtual stupor over Meret Oppenheim and Lee Miller. Of course, at the time I had no idea that both of these women were artists. Similarly, at the fashion shows, I watch the models. I desire them, I envy their beauty, I pity their objectification and I am disgusted by the whole ritual — simultaneously and in equal measure.”
— Zoe Leonard interviewed in Journal of Contemporary Art
(Also)
seriously, i don’t think even i realized until very recently how much zoe leonard’s art and words have marked me.
philip treacy for alexander mcqueen, 2008. this was to pay hommage to isabella blow, who had discovered them both. this is hands down my dream runway piece (will never not reblog).
Jean Paul Gaultier HC F/W 2007
at first it thought lily cole was giving you the finger but on second glance i think this is more of a “kiss my rings you underlings” stance.
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tsarevich:
cafeballads:
I would wear this to work, to church, to the dentist, to your hamster’s funeral, to the mall, to a Ashanti concert in a TGI Friday’s parking lot, to a job interview, to kill your hopes and dreams, to the library, to get my weave done, to the moon, to the stars.
i would wear this commentary
i mean the dress too, yes please, but cafeballads just rocked my world](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lfnbkk1pbO1qztfcko1_500.png)
[image description: a thin light-skinned woman is modelling clothing on a runway. her head and feet are cut off. she is wearing a hard to describe short black dress with sheer/mesh cutouts in the cleavage and sleeves. it is belted at the waist with a black leather belt and also has a dress shirt collar and tie style leather detail. you can see a bit of her thigh between the short skirt part of the dress and her sheer black thigh high stockings.]
I would wear this to work, to church, to the dentist, to your hamster’s funeral, to the mall, to a Ashanti concert in a TGI Friday’s parking lot, to a job interview, to kill your hopes and dreams, to the library, to get my weave done, to the moon, to the stars.
i would wear this commentary
i mean the dress too, yes please, but cafeballads just rocked my world
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