These are exciting times in high fashion. At last, designers are showing outfits that are are useful!
You take this dress, shown this week in Milan. The concept is perfection itself, making it easy to carry everything you need for an evening out.
The handy top shelf holds lipstick, cell phones, dental floss, etc. Below that, the larger shelves hold bigger stuff: fried chicken, tasers, canned goods, Hummel figurines… And, the sturdy bottom shelf displays reference books, small dogs and decorative shrubbery.
Warning: Some assembly required.
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A model displays a creation from Agatha Ruiz De La Prada’s Spring/Summer 2009 women’s collection during Milan Fashion Week September 26, 2008. REUTERS/Alessandro Garofalo
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i really liked some of humorous comments here. really just one was.. stupid.
joe, clearly this sort of design wasn’t intended for you or the public, and probably isn’t marketed to you in the first place for patent reasons involving an element of crudeness. but i guess it’s fair, seeing how fashion magazines stomp over your territory of how you try to pass off american eagle, wal-mart, mervyns, goody’s, or the likes as “fashion.” we certainly have to put up with looking at it every day in public.
even chaps is considered, “polo for the poor, ” it’s by no means easy to fit into this world. we do it because it’s another one of life’s challenges, we believe we’re up for. judging from your comments, you’ve already demonstrated you don’t have the courage to try, let alone endure it.
“…Because that’s what this multi-billion-dollar industry is all about, ‘inner-beauty” -Nigel
- Posted by mikeI look at crap like this, and think to myself: “Why do these people exist?” The models who put up with it, the cataclysmic imbeciles in the back who came up with it, and worst yet, the brainless rejects who piled into the seats of the surround to observe the vast quantities of stupidity…
No, actually, I can forgive the audience. Watching the freaks of the show walk past must be amusing. I just hope they didn’t have to pay for admission.
- Posted by Joea stack of upside down tupperware cups and a slice of cantaloupe for a hat.
- Posted by scariI love the color combo, but wouldn’t be amused if a bunch of small children tried to hide under my skirts during a rain storm.
- Posted by Lori Andersonwisp, as I’ve said before:
“A number of bloggers have commented in recent “fashion” entries that certain fashions are art for art’s own sake — that such fashions are not meant to be worn and need not be wearable. One blogger stated that the artisitc designs are later “watered down” to be more realistic and wearable.
Certainly, clothing can be, and often is, art. Clothing is a form of expression, sometimes explicit, sometimes implicit.
But, I would suggest that artisitic clothing cannot be divorced from the fact that it is (purportedly) clothing. When the fashion design becomes so gimmicky, absurd, and laughable that no sane person would wear it anywhere but the fashion runway (assuming, without conceding, that models are sane), it becomes a sham and a phoney.
This is not to say that for something to be art it has to be appreciated by the average white bread pedestrian on the pavement. But for fashion designers to conjure up the most absurd “clothing” they can think of, serve it up as art, and at the same time know that it is unwearable by anyone is, for me, the epitome of charlatanry.”
We are not talking about esoteric “art” here; we are talking about gauche designers who are simply too lazy or incompetent to create art that can be worn without people laughing all over the shop.”
I do hope that whoever is “inspired” by this “fashion” considers how a person will go potty while wearing it.
- Posted by Dr. DollI’ve waited years for Hula Hoops to make a comeback! I just thought they would be used in the backyard.
I really do like the color palette and from the waist up this is quite wearable. I’m into asymmetric earring pairs and I like that the button parts of the earrings aren’t the same color.
- Posted by EssBee, Miracle MileCouture like what’s seen in fashion shows like this one usually IS meant to be more of an art form than a functional clothing line. Designers make all sorts of weird, impractical designs and then clothing that people actually wear on a day-to-day basis is designed using the couture as inspiration.
- Posted by wispLook closely at that photo, is it me, or does it look photo shopped? I don’t think it’s a real dress at all. I mean, from the looks of it, that model has to have 7 foot legs.
- Posted by ChrisShe looks like a Dr. Suess prop.
- Posted by MelissaJ[...] Shelves for all your gadgets do-it-your-shelf dress [...]
- Posted by Shelves for all your gadgets « Oldster’s ViewWith all that shelf space why has she stuck her slice of melon on her head?
- Posted by Jacobusmaximusthis looks like it should be in whoville
- Posted by Jennifer seus