the right: seeing the future with contemporary art
beth ditto is all the rage in fashion nowadays. she is best pal with kate moss. she was seen in the front row at all the major shows. she is on the cover of the new conde nast magazine ‘love’ by katie grand. and you would have seen that coming, if you pay any attention to contemporary art, which is 3, 5 steps ahead of designs and the rest of the world.
jenny saville has been painting ‘bigger’ women for over 15 years. we were intrigued by her ability to see and make such beauty with the ‘unusual’. (her other objects are carcass, transvestite, open wounds, etc.) eventually, her ideas penetrated fashion by ’08. if you get to read her interview, you will find it very inspiring. we wish it is the artists that got to fix the financial crisis; artists are the smartest people really. they are not about money, not about greed, not about material gain. they deal with ideas and they deal with results.
(note: technology is another good indictor of future fashion. remember bush opposition of stem cell research back in 2001? it actually raised awareness for that science. and tom ford started juxtaposing, or cloning if you will, the same model one next to another for his gucci ads. the impact is felt to this day with the victor & rolf online show last season with the same sharon one after another. but that’s for another post.)
prediction: chinese designs will be fashionable, much like how the art world discovered the chinese contemporary art.
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