masquerade
God Save McQueen
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- Jun 1, 2005
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I'm a little tired of this Moroccan drag theme that seems to be popping up ever since the Supreme package. The package itself was stellar but now everyone has jumped on this bandwagon. First time around it seems intriguing, second time around it seems amusing, third and fourth time it just seems like the same old boring cultural appropriation that fashion falls back on every other season. It's amazing. Finding an Arab high fashion model is this impossible struggle yet dressing up a girl from Moscow as a Bedouin is high art. Lazy. Lazy. Lazy.
And then six months from now it will be all about the indigenous people of Australia or maybe the Kayapo tribe. How chic!
Wake me when this is over. Meisel has a gift but I just find this sort of thing so prevalent in fashion and so goddamn boring.
Thank you! I don't get the praise for this. I like Sasha too, but just because she got a cover doesn't mean its automatically good. A lot of people seem to just be happy about her existence and not the actual product.
As for the cover itself, I am just not feeling it. Thematically, it is very similar to the Supreme showcards and the Eliza cover which was just a month ago. And frankly, I think the Eliza cover worked better. The tone and ambiance really captured the concept. It felt romantic and timeless. This cover doesn't achieve that IMO. The makeup and hood make Sasha almost look like a boxer, not a wanderer from Morocco. Also, the flowers look a paint brush a 4th grader would use on photoshop to create their Jonas Brothers wallpaper. It just doesn't look professional. It looks hastily done and cheap.
I know Supreme didn't invent photo shoots based on Arabian nights, but they did revitalize the subject and make it popular again. Of course, the recent trend of harem pants also plays a role, but these eds are similar not only in content but in style too. The saturated colors, the obviously artificial sets. I do think that the inside photos are better than the cover (the flowers really bother me). I just think the ed fails at what it is trying to do: a romantic portrayal of this middle eastern imagery (after all, odalisque's were sex slaves). In the end, I think that Supreme did it better and Meisel did it better with Eliza.
Also, just a pet peeve I guess, the ring she is wearing on the cover is so obviously too big for her. I guess it's a styling error but it ruins the illusion to see all that excess space around her finger.