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fandomsecrets2019-04-27 09:52 am
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Re: Secrets (fandom or non fandom)/unpopular opinions
(Anonymous) 2019-04-28 12:34 am (UTC)(link)Re: Secrets (fandom or non fandom)/unpopular opinions
(Anonymous) 2019-04-28 12:54 am (UTC)(link)Huh?
I guess everyone better stop wearing clothes them if they're about "consuming the body." "They should make pretty things and not put them on people." As a designer, making pretty things and putting them on people is kind of the point.
The female body and clothes have nothing to do with the concept that "the female body is meant to be consumed by males" aka the male gaze. Fashion history has plenty of examples from corsets to hoop skirts to short hair that women love and men hated and women used fashion as a form of control!
I think you're both missing the point of haute couture. Haute couture exists as a place for designers to experiment. Every designer works an experimental piece into their collection. It's the launch point for their work and only top "fashion leader" buyers are going to buy it. Haute Couture is like that for the entire fashion House. It inspires all the collections down to bridge wear. In the strict world of target market fashion design, yes, haute couture is the one place that high end designers can get "artsy."
When your translating those looks down to a price point and so many types of garments and having to hit target sewing times and specific prices, having an "arty, I can do whatever I want" is freeing.
Look, I get fashion isn't like a painting. Haute couture still has artistic value for those designers and other fashion designers and artistic creators as inspiration.
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(Anonymous) 2019-04-28 01:46 am (UTC)(link)You're right, though, actual couture is where designers experiment and may come up with the next defining trend. There is a difference between that and the Met Gala art pieces. But the original anon equating Met Gala level art design to what ends up in stores was basically apples to oranges. There's a place for both, but to blame the result (off the rack clothing) on an unrelated cause (artsy designs) is what prompted me to step in.