{"id":752,"date":"2009-03-21T00:01:20","date_gmt":"2009-03-20T16:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dailydozencreative.com\/weblog\/?p=752"},"modified":"2009-03-21T00:13:02","modified_gmt":"2009-03-20T16:13:02","slug":"the-path-of-beth-ditto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.deaconyu.com\/?p=752","title":{"rendered":"paving the path for beth ditto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"beth ditto on the cover of love (photo: love magazine)\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dailydozencreative.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/bethdittolove.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"773\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blog.deaconyu.com\/?attachment_id=773\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.deaconyu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/bethdittolove.jpg?fit=488%2C628&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"488,628\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"bethdittolove\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.deaconyu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/bethdittolove.jpg?fit=488%2C628&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-773\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dailydozencreative.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/bethdittolove.jpg?w=250\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.deaconyu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/bethdittolove.jpg?w=488&amp;ssl=1 488w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.deaconyu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/bethdittolove.jpg?resize=233%2C300&amp;ssl=1 233w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 488px) 100vw, 488px\" \/><\/a><a title=\"plan by jenny saville (1993), oil on canvas, 274.5cm x 213.5cm (photo: the saatchi collection, london)\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dailydozencreative.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/savilleplan.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"775\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blog.deaconyu.com\/?attachment_id=775\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.deaconyu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/savilleplan.jpg?fit=320%2C412&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"320,412\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"savilleplan\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.deaconyu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/savilleplan.jpg?fit=320%2C412&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-775\" title=\"savilleplan\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dailydozencreative.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/savilleplan.jpg?w=250\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.deaconyu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/savilleplan.jpg?w=320&amp;ssl=1 320w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.deaconyu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/savilleplan.jpg?resize=233%2C300&amp;ssl=1 233w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><a title=\"manic street preachers, the holy bible (2004) 10th anniversary edition (photo: epic records)\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dailydozencreative.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/holybible.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"774\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blog.deaconyu.com\/?attachment_id=774\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.deaconyu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/holybible.jpg?fit=800%2C800&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"800,800\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"holybible\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.deaconyu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/holybible.jpg?fit=800%2C800&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-774\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dailydozencreative.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/holybible.jpg?resize=498%2C498\" alt=\"\" width=\"498\" height=\"498\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.deaconyu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/holybible.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.deaconyu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/holybible.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.deaconyu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/holybible.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>the right:<\/strong>\u00a0seeing the future with\u00a0contemporary art<\/em><\/p>\n<p>beth ditto is all the rage in fashion nowadays.\u00a0she is best pal with kate moss.\u00a0she was seen in the front row at all the major shows. she is on the cover of the new conde nast\u00a0magazine &#8216;love&#8217; 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.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jenny_Saville\" target=\"_blank\">jenny saville<\/a> has been painting &#8216;bigger&#8217; women for over 15 years. we were\u00a0intrigued\u00a0\u00a0by her\u00a0ability to see and make such beauty with the &#8216;unusual&#8217;. (her other objects are carcass,\u00a0transvestite, open wounds, etc.) eventually, her ideas\u00a0penetrated\u00a0fashion by &#8217;08. if you get to read her interview, you will find it very\u00a0inspiring. 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.<\/p>\n<p>(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\u00a0juxtaposing, or cloning if you will,\u00a0the same model one next to another for his gucci ads. the impact is felt to this day with the victor &amp; rolf online show last season with the same sharon one after another. but that&#8217;s for another post.)<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>prediction:<\/strong> chinese designs will be fashionable, much like how the art world discovered the chinese contemporary art.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the right:\u00a0seeing the future with\u00a0contemporary art beth ditto is all the rage in fashion nowadays.\u00a0she is best pal with kate moss.\u00a0she was seen in the front row at all the major shows. she is on the cover of the new conde nast\u00a0magazine &#8216;love&#8217; by katie grand. and you would have seen that coming, if you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-right"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pp6zn-c8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":866,"url":"https:\/\/blog.deaconyu.com\/?p=866","url_meta":{"origin":752,"position":0},"title":"same path, no thinking","author":"deacon","date":"31 Mar 09","format":false,"excerpt":"the wrong: taking 'inspiration' so literally and unintelligently anyone really think that bottle-opening buckle would become a fashion icon in the way of the gucci's horse bit buckle? come on jimmy! 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