Is It A Man? Is It A Woman?

Is it a tumour?! Today's rant comes from my reading this month and the A/S seasonal i-D and Pop magazines last night. I know I've had a go at fashion magazines in the past but of late they have been getting better. In fact I loved the editorial in Pop and I don't usually read editorials. But back to the point, it wasn't the way the mags were written, it was some of the fashion included inside.

I'm not one to judge on appearance but some of the "fashion" I saw was just silly. To start with let's take a look at i-D. P.56, the title is 'Shape and Form: Build, make destroy. Taking a look at the two pictures below the heading it is clear to see that the two designers have clearly thought about doing all three and ended up only the latter. Giles and Junya Watanabe are the convicts up for trial. Starting with Giles.

i-D described his season's work as "sexy michelin men". I'm quite sure that that is an oxymoron. To be fair it looked like someone had given the model a dress made out of an air bed and then blown it up. I wish we were in the days when fashion all about looking a billion dollars. Not like an oversized blueberry. If I could find you a photo of it I would happily pop it down. Instead I'll move onto Junya's work before I annoy someone.

Now it was her work that got on my nerves the most. I can easily relate her work to conceptual art. Now I'm not one to be biased either but personally I find Stuckism a LOT better than the YBA's. I've drifted off subject again. In short I am not a fan of conceptual rubbish. Therefore when I saw a woman wearing what appeared to be a pair of tights over multiple tumour like growths coming out of the top of her head needless to say I wasn't very impressed. I-D described it as "sculptural face covering turbans." To me it looked like something out of Resident Evil. Utter rubbish. I mean how can you say "Oh yeah I totally get what she is getting at," because what she is getting at is NOTHING. If the film Idiocracy was real this is what fashion would be like.

On the other hand I found Pop's mixture of cheese and jewellery very refreshing. I always like their Juxtapositioning of strange items. Although some of the time it makes little sense it always makes me chuckle. Oh and i-D is worth reading. I just found a couple of articles exceptionally goriffic. I loved their interview with Stella McCartney.

Rant Over.