Angelina.SutrisnoHow to inject arts when it comes to dressing up
September 4th 2008 08:50
"Art is about looking at images beyond images", this is the statement that I learn from the movie ‘Monalisa Smile’. Is fashion a form of art? Most of us will agree that precisely. Unfortunately, the mainstream media has successfully redefined the meaning of fashion as copying the Hollywood’s style with pages and pages dedicated to celeb style. As a truthful fashionistas, we shouldn’t just devour whatever provided by the mainstream media. In this case, I am referring to our sense of dressing up- mixing and matching garments. If we agree that fashion is a form of art, this means when it comes to dressing up, we should not only bound to be confined to Hollywood style. Art teaches us to look beyond images which means that it requires us to deconstruct our mind and paradigm to look beyond bounderies. It is the way how we approach fashion from different angles and perspectives.
For instance, if our current trend of thought has always taught us to wear leather pants just the way how celebrity wears it, our mind becomes restricted to it.
Kate Moss (cleo.com.au)
Posh (cleo.com.au)
However, if we try to think fashion as an art, we might fashion leather outfit in many different ways.For instance, when we associate leather pants with The Clash or Guns N Roses’ Slash, we will conjure up different ways of fashioning leather pants. Or when we associate it with the kind of music they play (punk and hardrock respectively). Think about how punk and hardrock project certain type of personalities to you? Think about how each unique persona may inspire your style?
The Clash (theclashonline.com)
Slash (snakepit.org)
Take a peek at what inspires Alexander Wang, New York based fashion designer, in his very own assembling of leather outfit in his Autumn/Winter Collection 2008. In his interview with Russh magazine, he said:
“For me in a general sense I always start with a basic idea-like a narrative for the collection. For A/W 2008, the collection was inspired by a girl I imagined crashing a party, then ditching it and walking home at 4am, getting messed up as she steps in puddles, scales scaffolding. There are rips and tears across prints and also in fabrics throughout the collection-I really like this juxtaposition…taking a flaw and making it into something beautiful . So that’s where the story for this season started, and then quickly one idea trickled into another until there was a cohesive collection. Each season I think about where my girl has been…”
A/W 2008 Alexander Wang
For instance, if our current trend of thought has always taught us to wear leather pants just the way how celebrity wears it, our mind becomes restricted to it.
However, if we try to think fashion as an art, we might fashion leather outfit in many different ways.For instance, when we associate leather pants with The Clash or Guns N Roses’ Slash, we will conjure up different ways of fashioning leather pants. Or when we associate it with the kind of music they play (punk and hardrock respectively). Think about how punk and hardrock project certain type of personalities to you? Think about how each unique persona may inspire your style?
Take a peek at what inspires Alexander Wang, New York based fashion designer, in his very own assembling of leather outfit in his Autumn/Winter Collection 2008. In his interview with Russh magazine, he said:
“For me in a general sense I always start with a basic idea-like a narrative for the collection. For A/W 2008, the collection was inspired by a girl I imagined crashing a party, then ditching it and walking home at 4am, getting messed up as she steps in puddles, scales scaffolding. There are rips and tears across prints and also in fabrics throughout the collection-I really like this juxtaposition…taking a flaw and making it into something beautiful . So that’s where the story for this season started, and then quickly one idea trickled into another until there was a cohesive collection. Each season I think about where my girl has been…”
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