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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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Wow…this dress is…well…useful, but it’s just a little strange.
Or you could use it as a fondue fountain! I can almost see the thick dark chocolate puddling on the bottom “shelf”
Wow, this looks like the sort of clothing you’d see on the Jetsons.
What’s the purpose ? It isn’t practical, you can’t sit down in it, all you can do is stand there. Is it fashion, or an odd piece of walking art work ? I can’t tell the difference.
What I think is funny is that the models wearing these ridiculous pieces of clothing/art work always look so angry! This lady is not going to let you use any of her shelf space!
“Queen Amidala is not amused.”
Well, wouldn’t you look angry if you were forced to wear something like that in public?
the best thing about this dress is that you can buy it for a child and then just let the tiers extend as the child grows. Not only do you get shelf space, but expanding shelf space.
I really like the slice of watermellon on her head it just makes the outfit standout a bit…
You would look angry too if you had to wear that. Just how long are her legs?
HeY! That’s my Hat!
You people don’t know what you’re talking about…..clearly, this is an umbrella dress to keep her feet toasty warm and dry. VERY practical.
Sheesh.
MMMMMMM! Sherbet!
wow….
this is a freakish dress
I mean..ice cream shelves??
i gotta agree with the Jetson’s remark.
what the hell is the point of this dress?
(if you can call it that)
definitely not fashion.
and i really can’t say it’s art.
though if you think about it, art inspires emotion.
and i’m definitely feeling disgust…
I see why models get paid… So much embarrassment.
I agree with the Jetson’s comment. In the words of Forrest Gump….”stupid is as stupid does.”
Also, can be used to unclog plugged drains.
Despite everybody in Spain, or at least lots of people, don´t fancy Agatha Ruiz de la Prada, in my opinion she is an excellent designer. Armstrongfl loves her style and colourful dresses. The exception happens when her model clothing is impossible to wear. This one on the picture seems wonderful.
Jumpin’ Jehoshaphat! From what I’ve seen of this designer’s fashions, humanity would be better served if she were selling fried chicken along the roadside in Texas — big hair, clunky jewelry, and all.
what’s with all the comments about how useless/unwearable the outfit is. haven’t you gotten the idea yet? the more fashionable something is, the less practical. it’s nothing new, but this might be an extreme case.
this looks like it should be in whoville
With all that shelf space why has she stuck her slice of melon on her head?
She looks like a Dr. Suess prop.
Look 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.
Couture 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.
I’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.
wisp, 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.
I 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.
a stack of upside down tupperware cups and a slice of cantaloupe for a hat.
I 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.
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