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[fluxxx]

Ask: Fashion Against AIDS

Hi dear all,
right now I'm doing my final thesis for the uni, and I'm choosing Fashion Against AIDS as the theme of my thesis. Well I need more info about it, I already got some articles that helps but I still dig for the history, causes and some other brands who doing the charity works and how it's working.
If you have any good links or info or articles about it, it would be really help so much.
thanks

 

[agee]

I am carrying this over from the Elsa Schiaparelli thread.

Does anyone have the book "Shocking: The art and fashion of Elsa Schiaparelli'?
I'm writing a research essay on Fashion and Surrealism, and it would be such a great help if someone could scan the pages about Dali and Schiaparelli (specifically about the skeleton dress)
Thanks so much!!!!!!!

 

[Cristal]

I'm doing an assignment about celebrities that have made an impact on today's fashion, any suggestions? Both male and female.

 

[LeBonChic]

My dream school is requiring a well-developed paragraph addressing the answer to this question

Pick one woman in history or fiction to converse with for an hour and explain your choice. What would you talk about?

Im thinking about Coco Chanel for being an influential historical figure. But I desperately need exact record of her famous quotes on the freedom of clothing for women (it's a single-sex school Im applying to). I've also heard that Coco has a sense of humor but dont know particularly how it is.

So please help

 

[agee]

I'm doing an assignment about celebrities that have made an impact on today's fashion, any suggestions? Both male and female.

If I am thinking today as in TODAY - 2010, Michelle Obama comes to mind. Now there are celebrities who are muses to designers (Ciara to Tisci) but I don't know if the designs from a collection make it to the street. But that is it's own question, are you referring to what people wear on the street or what a designer creates a collection around?

Not necessarily celebs, but Mad Men has influenced what we've seen on recent runways.

Doris Duke influenced one of Michael Kors' collections.

Italian films have influenced recent Dolce & Gabanna and Prada collections.

One thing to do is to go to style.com and for each collection there is a blurb and the designer usually discusses the inspiration for the collection in that blurb.

Bette Paige and others influenced the hipster look.

If we are reaching back, hip hop artists influenced fashion, an example is the over-sized hockey shirts worn by Snoop Dogg.

For a while, there was a symbiotic relationship between Gucci's Tom Ford and hip-hop artists like Sean Combs and Mary J. Blige.

 

[BetteT]

My dream school is requiring a well-developed paragraph addressing the answer to this question



Im thinking about Coco Chanel for being an influential historical figure. But I desperately need exact record of her famous quotes on the freedom of clothing for women (it's a single-sex school Im applying to). I've also heard that Coco has a sense of humor but dont know particularly how it is.

So please help

To get you started ... here are 2 threads about her. Not sure how in depth they are about her historical influence or quotes ... but worth a read. But ... you might find some quotes and some books people recommend about her which could lead to what you need, specifically. Check the credits on the images (later in the thread, after we made the crediting policy) because those credits might lead to some good sources, too.

In the Star Style / Icons from the Past subforum: Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel

In the Designers & Collections / History of Style subforum: 1883-1971 Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel

 

[agee]

My dream school is requiring a well-developed paragraph addressing the answer to this question



Im thinking about Coco Chanel for being an influential historical figure. But I desperately need exact record of her famous quotes on the freedom of clothing for women (it's a single-sex school Im applying to). I've also heard that Coco has a sense of humor but dont know particularly how it is.

So please help

The thing that jumps out at me is that this seems to be an essay / paragraph for admission to presumably a college / university / specialty school. Coco Chanel is fine as "an influential historical figure" but you would need to make sure that your essay is, to use vernacular, very tight. Not that it's not doable but it sounds like you don't know a lot about Coco Chanel, so do you have the time to research her to understand her underlying motives and influences? Is the topic of "freedom of clothing for women" one that you have given a lot of thought to and have strong feelings on? Is there another historical figure that you have more in depth knowledge of, and that hopefully is not a common topic by applicants?

By the way, if you want quotes, just do a google search on "Coco Chanel quotes." There is also a tFS thread on designer quotes.

ETA:
- I just saw BetteT's response, after a quick perusal it looks like our responses are complementary.

 

[BetteT]

They are ... thank you agee!

 

[Laurianne]

Research Paper in Fashion

Hello everybody,

I created this subject because I'm starting my last school year in Master and I have to write a research paper.
Of course they want us to choose a subject we're really attracted to and that we could maybe use for a job interview or something...
So of course I chose the fashion industry for research but I still don't have the problematic...

I wanted to mix fashion, communication, customers... maybe the power of fashion magazines...
But it's still not very clear.

So if you people can help me, questions that could be interesting, I take everything.

Once I will have found my problematic I will probably still need you for other things.

Meanwhile, your help is very welcome !!

 

[yogini108]

I was looking for the 'teach me your language i'll teach you mine' thread but couldnt find it! I thought I'd come here--anyone french interested in helping me in my French 6 class? I'm pretty good but need some help with the complicated parts of the language.

 

[rawbert]

Project statistics help!

Hey everyone! I'm currently taking a product development class and my partner and I need some demographic and psychographic statistics and feedback for our proposed project. We are testing the market for a secondary line by Louis Vuitton.

We created a survey and are looking for people interested in fashion and the marketing behind it to take it.

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/33H8ZQV

Thank you for checking it out!

 

[_Andrea_]

Assignment: Create an Outfit for a Character

I'll explain myself. Our style teacher asked us to interpret a character that she gave us. We have to dress from head to foot as the character would do.

I need to "dress like":

- 47 year lesbian woman
- with 2 little adoptive kids (from China)
- With a girlfriend
- She works as a reporter for a ecological magazine.

Could anyone help me?? I'm really really lost!

 

[MulletProof]

From that list, the only thing that would strongly determine her dressing, for me, would be the fact that she's 47, her style is probably more demure now.

Perhaps the life she leads makes her a bit more open-minded, less prompt to conform with typical dressing/designers or to give up to the pressure of wearing clothes in a certain way..
Since she works in ecology, I assume she's also into sustainability so she's probably not a crazy compulsive consumer.. she's probably more into investment pieces or at least pieces that she wants to keep longer than a couple of seasons.

Of course sexual preferences do tend to influence the way some people dress.. but I think it's also something that's slowly disappearing.. I think people are starting to feel comfortable being themselves instead of categorizing their style precisely for the segregation they encountered.. mainly in highly urban places, anyway.. I take it this woman lives in one of them?!..

I know someone that more or less fits your list (same age group, similar lifestyle, surgeon).. and she's one of the most elegant women I've seen, and she's very feminine, but never in an obvious way.
Inspired by her, I'll throw some ideas of what I could see her wearing:

[style.com]

 

[lucy92]

if she works for an eco magazine i would expect that she would wear outdoor gear like upscale brand REI.

i have some friends that wear REI items daily.

 

[tigerrouge]

Is this class an exercise in stereotype or is it really supposed to foster a deeper consideration of the issue? Because if it's the former, I would just bring along a fortysomething lesbian to the class, so that she could give the teacher a different sort of education in the use of "descriptive terms".

 

[CharlottefromCA]

This is one of the weirdest thread titles I have ever seen

I would have to agree..

I am just going to completely ignore the lesbian portion of the thread title because I don't think for the sake of your project (or for the sake of real life..) you should stereotype a sexual preference's clothing decisions.

But I would guess if the woman works for an ecological magazine she wouldn't wear much leather, and she would wear more earth tones (i know this is a stereotype.. but w/e lol..) and she probably would be stylish but not overly so (since she has two kids and is more practical with life).

 

[Fewormany]

Amazing title indeed !

On a serious note, I think Mulletproof gave some great examples of styles that work. Muted colour palet, interesting mix between feminine/masculine (without being obvious or stereotypical) and practical.

 

[_Andrea_]

Thank you for all the answers!

Yeah, I know the lesbian part is really problematic. When my teacher told me to look like a lesbian i thought: "well, and what i'm supposed to do? to dress like a guy?"

To look like a lesbian i thought of wearing a multicolor bracelet.
I will also wear a little bag (those made for the kids) with the name and surnames of them like, for example: "Ana Xiang" so you can tell she's got two kids from China.

I also thought of wearing neutral colors as someone said and, of course, no fur at all, not even in the shoes.

The looks that MulletProof showed are fantastic, especially the first and the fourth (thank you!) so i'll try something like that.

And for the shoes, i'm not sure yet. I have a pair of boots with a little of heels but they are leather boots...

The makeup will be simple, with just some eyeline and lipstick and a little bit of color on the cheeks.

I'm still not sure about the hair, the wristwatch and the earrings (yes, we also have to take care of that)

Ah, and to look like a reporter i'll bring a recorder lol.

Thank you very much again!!

 

[_Andrea_]

Oh, and please forget my English mistakes. I wrote it really fast without correcting anything

 

[MulletProof]

^ Don't worry, it's just not very politically correct-sounding.

May I ask what subject is this assignment for?.. I know it's style but are you seeing any topic in particular?
I think you might want to get more creative than following your teacher's 'look like a lesbian' characterization, because, unless this style class is about stereotypes only, there isn't really such a thing... is your teacher very conservative? if she is not, maybe she's trying to push a lifestyle vs. personal style challenge on you and probably expecting you to find out the boundaries between them... does it make any sense?
If, on the other hand, she is very conservative.. I would still suggest you to challenge her instead by NOT doing stereotypes of what she listed.. surprise her by doing the opposite, by showing her that you understand that style can be an expression or a mood.. not necessarily a uniform or categorization, let alone a representation of your sexual preferences... I'm actually inclined to think that's what she's secretly expecting from you.

I'm going to say that these 4 points you mentioned MAY NOT really affect the way someone might dress.. AT ALL. Not even her age. And really, what kind of woman with some vague sense of style carries a bag with her children's name on it?.. unless this is a looklet-inspired challenge and not a serious class about style, I'd say.. drop the idea.

Good luck!