Fashion moves so fast and has such a big output. How many designers are there working right now? How many clothes do they make each season? How many clothes have been designed to this day?
What I wonder is if you can even become a designer anymore and create a consistent body of work for several years without being boring or ripping off other designers or making totally crazy unwearable clothing.
What do you think?
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Wasn't this immense pressure to achieve one of the reasons why Alexander McQueen committed suicide?
>How many designers are there working right now? How many clothes do they make each season? How many clothes have been designed to this day?
Same theories and thoughts like this pop up in all forms of Art, paintings, literature, film, music . The limits are within the Art, insofar that the individual can go.
I think fashion, despite some of its shit fingers (Hype beasts, major ready to wear stores), is on a continuous inspirational rise. Others may disagree but most of this stuff is subjective. Personally i think Raf Simmons is one of the best contemporary designers and i cant wait to see his new collection.
Again, like every other art form the same question has arose and only the natural state of things and time, can really be an answer.
I'd like to personally say, I think Yves Saint Laurent's philosophy on making Fashion more "democratic" was smart, but I think the message is becoming lost recently.
I could post a couple of interviews that may interest you.
I think it's also far more difficult to innovate with menswear yet collections like moody still prove that it's possible
Why more difficult with menswear?
Do it please.
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>I think Yves Saint Laurent's philosophy on making Fashion more "democratic" was smart, but I think the message is becoming lost recently.
Can you elaborate?
Let me hear what you think of the interviews.
Imma read this tomorrow dont let this thread die okay
Thanks for sharing.
Saving this for reading later.
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such a good collection
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whats unwearable about this
The interviews at least show that one can be creative/survive in this high pressure world, but they are established. How do graduates look at this? I know copying and creators rights are a big problem. There's not enough education about that topic.
Come on, share your thoughts about this.
learn about it yourself vestoj.com
and shut up
>quotes a socialist
Dropped.
>I have one conviction about what style should be. Maybe for my own brand, it’s a bit more urban, a bit more Maoist. It’s very much about trying to create a uniform. At Hermès, it will always be more about travel, more colours, more prints.
triggered
Is it a wrong conviction.
Everything is stolen from each other and nothings original. If you think it is, nobody was paying close enough attention to what they stole from anyway.
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fewer accepted silhouettes.
The mastery of fashion, just like any medium of art, is not determined by quantity and the employment of the latest materials and images on the market in creating something, it's how sensibly and skillfully existing materials are further developed and used that determines the value of a product. There is no shortage of talented, creative artists if you know where to look.
>What I wonder is if you can even become a designer anymore and create a consistent body of work for several years without being boring or ripping off other designers or making totally crazy unwearable clothing.
Fashion is a limited language so similar patterns in different works are bound to be encountered, this isn't a big deal unless some arbitrary boundaries are crossed.
Pretty sure it was coke + his mother's death
i don't know if fashion will even exist in the future... why?
aliens don't wear clothes
>Let me hear what you think of the interviews.
I am new to fashion so I don't think I have any valuable thoughts to share desu Being a fashion designer sounds tough. I have no idea how they keep up with the fast pace with all the competition. The Lemaire and Chalayan interviews painted a bleak picture for me. These were all established designers with experience and a customer base so I wonder how new designers feel.
High fashion is somewhat strange to me. With cheap mall brands you have basically the same generic stuff every season. There is this sense of safety that if you are just looking for something practical to wear like a sweater or jacket you will find it. And if you damage a piece of clothing you can buy the same or almost the same thing. But with high fashion there are these unique clothes that are only sold for one season. If you miss them in stores you have to rely on finding them used. Finding something from several seasons in the past is hard and as clothes naturally wear it only gets harder till eventually it will be impossible. Yet I think clothes from 10 years ago aren't any less wearable today. I like the idea behind the Helmut Lang Re-edition since the clothes are timeless I think.
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Now I don't understand the first thing about fashion, and even less about high fashion, but my impression is that practicality in any form either isn't considered or outright jettisoned. Is there a reason for this? I can maybe understand it in catwalk stuff where it's not really about that, but it leaks into high street brands over time. Surely it;d be of more value to a designer to make something people would be happy to wear?
It's definitely possible. I don't think there's a true limit to creativity. Think about how many graphic designers are out there right now. And although not necessarily what you're looking for, I think you'd enjoy this:
Compromising comfort and practicality for image for whatever purposes is the extreme of fashion and nothing new, though historically the tradition was oriented towards particular groups of people. The current democratized, individualist environment provides for much more liberty in this respect, from this arises the inreasing desire for distinction among individuals, down to the smallest details. The industry of course realizes this and caters to the demand. Obviously its a suboptimal and superfluous way of manifesting yourself in fashion
>my impression is that practicality in any form either isn't considered or outright jettisoned
not at all, I wouldn't say so
I think it depends a lot what's your definition of 'practical' but I don't see it like this at all