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So true, DFW

In true form of the entire point of David Foster Wallace's 2005 commencement speech at Kenyon, i've taken his words to heart for my own (blogging) experiences.

"Probably the most dangerous thing about college education, at least in my own case, is that it enables my tendency to over-intellectualize stuff, to get lost in abstract arguments inside my head instead of simply paying attention to what's going on right in front of me. Paying attention to what's going on inside me."

 I'm definitely over-intellectualizing what is just clothes. pretty clothes. and also, the entire concept of a blog denies the blogger immediate attention to whats going on both in front and inside. dilemma!

art + textiles

i saw this tapestry the other day at my new favorite museum in Barcelona- Fundacio de Joan Miro. The picture does no justice to the thickness of the yarn or its luscious texture. I want to roll all over it and then make it for myself.

the big project

In examining the spectacle created surrounding Alexander McQueen's death for my past Cultural Studies paper, I became infatuated with Walter Benjamin's notion that "fashion does not recognize death" (from The Arcades Project). Fashion, Benjamin understands, is constantly eliminating all "sudden ends and discontinuities" through its perpetual progression from one trend to the next. The relationship between fashion and death, or fashion and historicity, has led me to revisit the notion of the archive.  I've been thinking visually about how it can be employed in fashion to acknowledge historicity without pastiche, or how a garment can demonstrate the inevitable rejection of death in the world of fashion. This may end up leading to a larger project where I examine, critically and physically, the possibilities that arise when thinking of the archive and its role in fashion and recognition.

Also--- when i googled "fashion archive" i found this interesting project created by a coalition of european fashion schools, the Contemporary Fashion Archive. Is the paradoxical nature of an "archive" of contemporary fashion the only possible, or the only reasonable use of archiving fashion? I hope I will find out. but for now, this website is also a really good resource for finding contemporary fashion designers (if you don't mind that it ended in 2007, and that things like AMcQ's death are left un-updated).

http://www.contemporaryfashion.net/index.php/none/none/0/uk/home.html

today is my birthday

and i want it to be like this, like fashion birthdays. Its Lula's 5th birthday "celebration". are they drunk or just weird-- probably both but the point is she's got balloons in the tub

Call me on my undie-line

Underwear from the secret Syrian lingerie scene. direct booty call line on the nokia. It seems as though the underground syrian lingerie artists have accomplished a direct  exposure of the implicit function of western lingerie. I've recently become fascinated by underwear because clothes in London are too expensive or too overpriced to actually buy so i buy the faux stretch lace and feel good on the inside... isnt that the most important thing ..?

validation from the industry

It looks like Purple Magazine is also trying big clothes on little girls. Are these pictures from the latest issue (which i picked up for free in a mad rush outside the CSM library) an affective exploration in functionality and context? or are they on the verge of the surreal child-beauty-pageant mimicry of adulthood? Or maybe they are just a refreshing, playful situating of fashion that gets ruined with analysis. Either way, I had the idea first... the bottom one is even comme des garcons :)