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One of my favorite blogs, Nick's Attic, regularly talks about fashion and I've kept saying that I would love to be a fashion blogger. I've decided to take control of my life and bring to you the first fashion conscious piece at your favorite blog.
Fall is upon us. The September issue of Vogue (this year known as the Beyble) was 832 pages of high gloss ads and fashion commentary. I have had time to reflect and observe. Read a few articles to give you my full opinion. |
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A trend that fashion is leaning towards is dissolving the concept of what is “female” and “male”. It comes across almost as a political statement against this social insistence on gendering children. This isn't the newest concept in fashion. Ashley Simpson and husband Evan Ross have been working on an androgynous clothing line both admitting to sharing each others clothes.
Model Andreja Pejic has traded in on her ability to blend between the constructs of male and female in order to achieve success. Certainly part of Ruby Rose's attraction comes from the masculine edge she brings into her femininity. The ads Alexander McQueen ran in the September Issue certainly straddled that gender divide as. Coach used the same aesthetic with model Kayla Shadow when they put her in a biker jacket.
Andreja Pejic
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Ruby Rose
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Kayla Shadow for Coach
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Fashion is a constant reinvention. We might finally be coming back to a time where men's and women's fashion did not differ strongly from one another. Steff Yotka writes on Vogue's website, “a boy-or-man- in heels or a skirt doesn't feel too out of place.” She clearly hasn't been to middle America in a while. Both of those things stand out as strange.
Personally, I love this trend. It gives men and women to explore the kind of clothing they like without being as critiqued. The bargain basement version of this meeting of the minds can be seen with the floral prints on shirts in the men's departments. It's filtered down into what is acceptable in conservative America. We're a long way from wide acceptance of men wearing skirts and heels. |
The fashion forwardness of New York and Tokyo is bound to push it's way down at some time. Designers have started putting male models in their female collections. Much like in 2015 when Jelle Haen was put in the Proenza Schouler Fall show. Conversely female models have been put into male collections, like Craig Green's 2016 Spring Catwalk or when models Emilie Evander and Marland Backus walked for Gucci.
Jelle Haen in a black coat for the Proenza Show
Emillie Evander for Gucci
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Marland Backus for Gucci
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Yumi Lambert for Gucci
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The Creative Director of Acne is doing really fascinating work currently. Jonny Johansson is working a lot with gender fluidity. Even putting his son in “pastel pink coats, heeled boots, and high necked blouses” for their 2015 womenswear campaign. All the looks do not strike home, but I found the collection to be fascinating. Especially that powder pink fleece of heat retention. Luke Leitch described the clothes as “an adroit mix of surf and pre-punk” and that it “tapped into menswear's current fixation with gender fluidity”.
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This is just exciting to me. This emphasis that's being out on having different clothing and different options and not constricting people. What fashion is telling us is that we can dress however we want. J.W. Anderson has designed dresses for men. Italian fashion designer Ricardo Tisci promotes the kilt. Fashion is propelling the world forward and allowing us to express ourselves. People forget how much of an expression and defiance clothes can be. It's why fashion continues to be the most wearable of art forms.
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