One: Outfits from a New Era at the Montreal Biosphere
Our day- to-day is filled with alluring billboards, enticing magazine adverts, and pop-up ads that beckon us straight through the pearly gates of our numerous pantheons of goods and services. We buy to no end, only to discard our new acquisitions once the initial appeal has worn off. Consumerism is undeniably the name of the game, … Read more
Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty at the MMOA
It’s safe to say that this upcoming exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, by virtue of the extraordinary designer it celebrates, will evidently be well worth the road trip. Entitled, Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty, the exhibit will showcase pieces from the late designer’s prolific 19-year career. A show not to be … Read more
The Ugly Shoe: Why Traditional Men’s Footwear Redesigned as High Heels is Such a Hard Sell
We women are very fortunate. When it comes to clothing, we have more choices than we’ve ever bargained for. And as if that weren’t enough, designers love to tweak traditional male pieces to create even more garments for us to wear, far more than what is available to men. Thanks to a fashion industry that … Read more
Do Women Dress to Please Men?
This question comes up every so often, for instance whenever hemlines suddenly grow longer or get shorter, signaling a shift in what women want, or more likely what designers believe women want. It’s popular belief that women dress in order to please men. Certainly, that may have been true at some point, particularly when the … Read more
A Single Man: Glossy in Motion?
Place a seasoned fashion designer behind the lens and what do you get? A Single Man. Designer turned film director Tom Ford is behind this cinematic offering. The film, which he financed himself, is the screen adaptation of Christopher Isherwood’s novel of the same name. A Single Man tells the story of George Falconer (Colin … Read more
Extremes of Style: When Antifashion Becomes Fashion
Posted by Katia on April 19, 2011 · 2 Comments
Fashion is the vehicle through which a particular beauty ideal travels from the towering skyscrapers housing the offices of the industry’s most influential glossies to our mass consciousness. Across the pages of fashion magazines lay perfectly symmetrical faces with flawless, porcelain skin, and long and lean statuesque models of near perfection. It’s odd then to … Read more
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