Comments on: Fashion Survivors

Fashion Survivors

kathrineg — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:03:45 -0800

Ah, Fashion. The shows.

The designers.
The styling.
The photography.
The models.
The news (including the colors).
The street.

By: oinopaponton

oinopaponton — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:11:58 -0800

I know there's more important stuff going on in the world, but my sole reason for visiting the New York Times lately has been this baby. Thanks for the links.

By: Blazecock Pileon

Blazecock Pileon — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:14:54 -0800

The food.

By: cmgonzalez

cmgonzalez — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:19:08 -0800

The weird crap nobody would ever wear off the runway. Is that inspired by Dumb Donald?

By: Scoo

Scoo — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:23:03 -0800

Vacuous self indulgent twaddle.

By: ThePinkSuperhero

ThePinkSuperhero — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:23:43 -0800

Through some mix of fate and outrageous self-promotion, I managed to finagle an invitation to a show this season- the one night this week I actually had something to do I couldn't put off. Bah! That's what I get for not looking at my calendar. Next season I'm IN, I swear, if I have to scale the tents and rappel in.

By: kathrineg

kathrineg — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:24:04 -0800

Vacuous self indulgent twaddle. Yes, what about it?

By: kathrineg

kathrineg — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:24:20 -0800

What show?!?!?

By: Scoo

Scoo — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:25:00 -0800

Bah!

By: adipocere

adipocere — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:25:23 -0800

Fresh air! Times Square!

By: Optimus Chyme

Optimus Chyme — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:26:41 -0800

The weird crap nobody would ever wear off the runway. posted by cmgonzalez at 11:19 AM on September 15 *is Karl Lagerfeld* *smokes enormous blunt * *has amazing idea for 60's era Batman-villain prêt-à-porter line*

By: Go Banana

Go Banana — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:33:31 -0800

Ah, fashion...how I love you! What other endeavour is able to be so totally transfixing yet so unapologetically vacuous and ephemeral all at once? Thanks for the great post.

By: librarylis

librarylis — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:36:50 -0800

You did a FPP on NY Fashion Week and didn't include a link to the Fug Girls doing their thing? They're the only reason I know it's Fashion Week, and they make reading about it bearable, even funny!

By: infinitefloatingbrains

infinitefloatingbrains — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:44:00 -0800

Here's a much more realistic take on fashion photography. The comments section contains some great inside baseball.

By: Burhanistan

Burhanistan — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:47:32 -0800

Ah, skating on the thin sheen of pus on the engorged, bubbling sore on the anus of the beast.

By: hoppytoad

hoppytoad — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:58:22 -0800

The Secret World of Haute Couture gives another look inside the fashion industry. It's up on youtube.

By: octothorpe

octothorpe — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:59:10 -0800

Is this something that I'd have to wear clothes to understand?

By: Thorzdad

Thorzdad — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 12:13:33 -0800

It's nice the designers are able to give meth addicts some work.

By: Bookhouse

Bookhouse — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 12:13:45 -0800

Rarely is ignorance so proudly flaunted on Metafilter as it is in fashion threads.

By: rtha

rtha — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 12:48:48 -0800

Cool. Thanks!

By: lunit

lunit — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:07:33 -0800

The race politics.

By: Burhanistan

Burhanistan — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:24:47 -0800

It's nice the designers are able to give meth addicts some work. Gah! I wasn't expecting a real life zombie stare.

By: kathrineg

kathrineg — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:46:46 -0800

A few of my favorite looks Badgley Mischka Chris Benz Sophie Theallet Rosa Cha Richard Chai Derek Lam Carlos Miele

By: cmgonzalez

cmgonzalez — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:09:16 -0800

Gah! I wasn't expecting a real life zombie stare. Perhaps this is better?

By: bad grammar

bad grammar — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:11:49 -0800

Don't be so hard on them. Think of fashion as the ecological refugium of skinny people, with bizarre plumage and barely sublimated mating rituals. It's not supposed to be normal.

By: kathrineg

kathrineg — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:54:30 -0800

making fun of people for how they look is always clever

By: Burhanistan

Burhanistan — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:00:04 -0800

making fun of people for how they look is always clever Kneejerks aside, these people are scary zombies and need to be destroyed.

By: cmgonzalez

cmgonzalez — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:12:04 -0800

It's more the fact that the fashion industry chooses to exploit these people for those reasons, otherwise why have a "model directory" where you can search by the body part or physical feature the model is known for? Another thing is the industry has in the past 5-7 years or so, gone for a certain homogeneous look in order to further the "model as clothes hanger, do not notice her face" notion. So there's a whole host of Eastern European virtual clones out there on the runway (though this has been changing slightly). I enjoy fashion, but there are aspects that are up for question, as well as ways to poke fun at that industry's choices.

By: kathrineg

kathrineg — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:19:01 -0800

OK, fair. I get defensive because so many of the models are immigrants and very young immigrants at that.

By: nax

nax — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:23:47 -0800

Thank you. No Kanye, No Joe Wilson, No Health care. You win the internet today.

By: cmgonzalez

cmgonzalez — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:11:11 -0800

The fact that so many are that young is a key factor. Besides the more superficial issue of 16 year olds selling clothes to 30 year olds, there's not a little exploitation or pressure happening. A lot of these girls are living a dream and they are making more money than they could've ever imagined, seeing the world, and all that, but there's a lot of damage that can be done. See Crystal Renn, Ali Michael, or more sadly, Ruslana Korshunova, among others. That said, the frilliness and the fantasy, the creativity on display, and other parts of fashion are fun and the part I enjoy. The whole model as clothes hanger and not human being thing is something I don't; it's dehumanizing. Would also be nice to see a variety of shapes, sizes, ages, and heights out there. Celebrating that fun, creative aspect in a more human, relatable way.

By: zarq

zarq — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 20:03:43 -0800

Nice post. :) I've been wrangling press backstage at various Fashion Week shows for the last 6 days. I'll be very, very happy when it's all over in a day or two.

By: zarq

zarq — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 20:07:04 -0800

Also, The Daily is probably an easier source for industry / fashion week news than WWD for the casual reader. Most of the content on WWD is for subscribers only.

By: debbie_ann

debbie_ann — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 03:54:45 -0800

Donna Karen! ♥

By: oinopaponton

oinopaponton — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 04:57:47 -0800

Not that impressed with Marc Jacobs's shows, but holy shit, Rodarte.

By: kathrineg

kathrineg — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 09:23:10 -0800

His Marc by Marc Jacobs was okay, but the other...oy Rodarte is incredibly swampalicious, I would love to see video of that