Originally posted by toocoolforyah@Dec 13th, 2003 - 11:39 pm
What is behind a great masterpiece, is it a great mind behind it or is it the art.
Are designers revolutionizing fashion or is fashion like a circle going round and round.
to start with there are only very few 'masterpieces' being created in our times, nothing like the turn of the century, the 30's or the '50s fashion's creative explosion in our days. Like with art circles, fashion designers are too over excited by the past to create with an open mind, so even when they attempt a 'revolution' they seem doing so with borrowed material.
reasons behind this?
*The common hatefull quote 'everything has been done already' is damaging designers creativity from day one.
*Our lifestyles are not based on 'occasions' as they were during the past, and design has to be creative but in a functional way. Poiret and Mme Gres were dressing women that partied in a different way than today. People are a bit bored of dressing up and there are less occasions for this.
*Craftmanship is somehow 'lost'. Mass production leads people to forget 'how to do things' if you get my point. As a designer, i have a real hard time to employ people that actually know how to create a garment in the good old construction ways... or to adapt to new patterns.. saw them a 'creative' pattern and they might run away screaming
*nostalgia can be quite harmful for new designers, people like the great masters of design, researched new shapes and worked as if there was no past in history of costume, hence the masterpieces of Christobal Balenciaga, Chanel, Dior, Gres etc.
Today, it is considered 'legitimate' to pay a fortune for lux copies (see Nicolas G. huge flop for Balenciaga, where he copied -to a T- those famous 'patchwork' looks from a dead and long forgoten LA designer... how sad and poor creative wise, it was the begining of the end for Nicolas )