I say we go ahead and declare all fashion shows a kind of performance art that is unrelated to what people - even the ones in the audience - would ever wear anywhere but a runway. It's not fashion, it's clothes as art. Or if you insist on calling it fashion, then there are two types of fashion: what you can wear in public, and what will only ever be worn that one time on that catwalk.
Mokalus of Borg
PS - It doesn't apply to every single fashion show, though.
PPS - I guess that's the main complicating factor.
Have you ever read the Reuters 'Oddly Enough' blog? The blogger there makes that point oh so subtly on many hilarious occasions.
ReplyDeleteI haven't read that before, but I'm checking it out now.
ReplyDeleteClothes as art, or art as clothes? Hmm...
ReplyDeleteWell, I guess you could always wrap a canvas painting around yourself as a stiff, uncomfortable toga...
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