Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Week 4 Free Response

 German designer Karl Lagerfeld (R) and British model Cara Delevingne (L) take to the catwalk at the end of the Fall/Winter 2014-2015 Ready to Wear collection by Chanel in Paris, France, March 4, 2014. The presentation of the women's collections runs from Feb. 25 to March 5.


So I was surfing the web the other day and I came across an article on the New York Times Website about the latest Chanel fashion show held in Paris. 

It was held in a supermarket.

Um.

What?

Apparently high-fashion is too high-fashion for an actual fashion show. The fact that these models are wearing thousand dollar pieces while strutting past cans of cat food is utterly ridiculous. The juxtaposition is hysterical.

The whole design of high-fashion is just so stupid. I understand that high-fashion is considered more art than functional wear, I get that. But, the lack of functionality is allowing high-fashion to go unchecked. It's now less about design and more about being edgy, avant-garde, and in Chanel's case; utterly random. 

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