Second Seminar

Here is some research from the notes i made in the seminar and also just things that were shown that caught my eye..

This is a photo from the Rick Owens S/S 2014 collection, we were shown this to see how some designers are introducing more diversity to the catwalk in a big way and also portraying women in a new way too. It's got to be said i don't think it was quite my cup of tea, i can appreciate how he is trying to get a more diverse range of models/people onto the catwalk, however i personally think you have to with who the clothes look best on to sell them so i feel this show was more of a statement or an artform rather than actually advertising the clothes. I read a few years in a book called 'Fashion Babylon' that designers want models who look as close to the paper their garments were designed on as possible so that they don't change too much from paper to body, i don't by any means agree with the stick thin and limited ethnicity of models at the moment however i can kind of see where that statement is coming from, surely there has to be a happy medium though?!

Another thing that was introduced to us was the rise of the older generation fashionistas, we watched a exert from an american film/documentary on them and i have really started to like this concept of fearless styling with age. I were also told about another blog along the same line http://advancedstyle.blogspot.co.uk/ .

• iris opfell
• difference between beauty and attractiveness
• uncanny valley
• youtube - why human replicas scare us
• youtube - dove real beauty sketches (controversy)
• otto dix's
• anita berber
• illamasqua controversy over imperfection and human fundamentalism campaigns