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My friend in Milan said all runway fashion should be wearable by real people, but I'm not so sure.
She works at a small design house and argued that if a piece can't be worn to a grocery store, it's just art, not fashion. I saw a Viktor & Rolf show last year where models wore giant, sculpted dresses that were clearly not for daily life. It made me think maybe fashion shows are more about big ideas to trickle down into simpler pieces. Where do you think the line is between wearable design and pure artistic expression?
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jakel3627d ago
Runway shows are the big IDEA, and wearable clothes are the practical RESULT.
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patricia_schmidt1427d ago
Oh that's a really good way to put it, @jakel36. I mean, it makes me wonder where the line actually is though. Like, are some designers just bad at turning their big idea into something a real person can wear? Or is the point of the runway show sometimes just to be art and not a plan for clothes at all? Idk, maybe it's just me but I feel like the gap between the idea and the result keeps getting bigger every season.
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dianal9427d ago
That "big idea" feels like it's mostly for press photos at this point. It's just clothes, not a peace treaty.
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