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Fashion takes itself too seriously
Oct 20 19 04:07 pm Link Ha! They could’ve addressed this in a much more embracing way... Oct 21 19 07:24 pm Link Or they may just feel some type of way for somebody trying to dick ride them to notoriety. Oct 21 19 09:06 pm Link More clowns!!! More pies!!!!  Pretty sure "fashion" knows it is a kitschey and very $$$ laden joke on the world. It appears she broke with decorum by refusing to pretend to be serious. Fashion has made this a funner, more "pretty" world. It has not made this a signicantly better world. It can't and it won't. Flaunting folly with folly is rather gauche though, I doubt she expected to emerge unscathed. My home town has the right idea. I went to one of these shows years ago, it was awesome!!! There are pix and video at the bottom of the page. https://www.fresnoartmuseum.org/events/trashique/ Oct 21 19 11:56 pm Link Sorry... I don't find it funny what she did... not heroic or comedic and not a statement on how fashion takes itself too serious. Crushing a runway show, that costs in the ball park of a Million bucks, where a designer introduces their new collection for the next season is not cool. Fashion takes itself serious because it's a business and part of a multi Billion Dollars per year industry. I could watch that video not longer than half way through, because that ignorant chick thinks that she did something great! I have worked not only on too many fashion shows, I have been involved in hundreds of productions for designers for industry shows over the years and I know how much work goes into it. There is enough chaos backstage to put on that expensive show, the last anybody needs is a stupid ass to interrupt the flow. Oct 23 19 01:53 am Link Shadow Dancer wrote: Read my general response just above. Oct 23 19 02:04 am Link "Why did I do it? Because the fashion world takes itself too seriously." Yeah, the chick in the video takes herself to seriously, too. Chick, being intentionally used as a term of derision. She used multiple stereotypes to offend/belittle multiple people. There is nothing uplifting about this woman's actions or spiel. She did nothing of social or moral importance. She was nothing more than a brat. Now that she has posted her video of self grandeur, perhaps the people she harmed will find some recourse. Oct 23 19 04:44 am Link udor wrote: Udor, I get that working a fashion show is an adreneline rush and a source of income doing something that is fun. I also understand that you need to take that job very seriously as expectations are high and potential replacements are nipping at your heels constantly. I admire very much what it took for you to get where you are and I respect it also. Oct 23 19 09:38 am Link I have little to no interest in the fashion world...But I watched "The devil wears Prada"...I thought that Meryl Streep did a pretty good job giving me a glimpse...Did she? Oct 23 19 10:14 am Link Udor, I can't argue with your argument about the immensity and dollar value of the fashion industry. It's correct, at least as far as it goes, and I'm glad that you did not equate cost with value--they are not always the same. But I hold that anything that is so self congratulatory can't exist without the development of a great deal of puffery which quite simply demands the presence, from time to time, of a pinprick, which is what this young lady was. It was a happening, a piece of informal theater and it might easily have been staged by the ones promoting the show themselves. It wouldn't be the first time and they did get a fair amount of extra publicity out of it. And if you don't my borrowing from the theater (my favorite and equally self-congratulatory activity) ... "whose end, both at the first and now, was and is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature, to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure."--c W. Shakespeare. So let the show go on! I think Shadow Dancer sums it up pretty well. All ;IMHO as always of course Oct 23 19 11:02 am Link Personally I found the Woman’s stunt far to tame I would have appreciated something more outrageous I have been involved with or attended 34 straight seasons of my City’s Fashion Week and have only witnessed 2 Fashion Shows sabotaged - one by animal rights folks protesting a fur show and another where a Model involved tore down the runway backdrop ( possibly due to mental health issues ,drug use or both) In both situations the audience was quite transfixed by what occurred - and I believe some thought what had occurred was part of the show and of course in this day and age - a bit of scandal gets more media attention I can see the other side of the issue though as well -if I were a serious designer / fashion house I would probably be pissed sales of the related fashion could be negatively affected by a flawed runway presentation Really though it’s incumbent upon the organizers of such fashions shows to have the proper security in place to thwart such intrusions and disruptions Oct 24 19 12:11 am Link double Oct 24 19 12:11 am Link Garry k wrote: I lke this post! Oct 24 19 12:14 pm Link This is an issue of safety also. I produce live shows. If someone comes out of the audience and tries to get on stage, I am taking it as a direct physical and safety threat to the performers in the show and I am going to grab that person in a very painful way and haul their ass off the stage and hold them for the police. Protesting is not only a right but a responsibility, BUT there are limits, and trespassing and becoming a physical threat are not acceptable. This woman's protest doesn't come off as serious. It's more a publicity stunt to promote herself. Oct 24 19 02:29 pm Link DMotion Picture Group wrote: Your viewpoint is understood and understandable. It has been mentioned that this might also be an "inside job" to secure more publicity. I don't know but it certainly seems possible. Oct 24 19 03:01 pm Link |
