AnotherMan's Dream

AnotherMan's latest editorial uses painting, the time honored method of image capturing, in place of the sleek customary fashion snapshots presenting moments of momentary beauty and commercialism (conveniently placed vitamin enhanced water!), and has been stewing in my head over the past few weeks. I've been swimming in the hazy-dreamy quality of Christian Schoeler's work and love the use of a slower and more indistinct method of fashion presentation.


Sometimes it's just about the feeling you get from a model's general "look", not the sharply defined things and obvious references (we get it, she's wearing a lot of eyeliner, must be in a punk phase) that are cobbled together for a story. My favorite fashion editorials have stuck in my head with images as blurred as AnotherMan's, still retaining the strongest spirit of the piece.


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NYTimes Style Mag: Fashion from Art

This issue of T Magazine has derived the art that inspired the recent NY collections with the help of the curators of some of the most well known collections, like the MOMA. I love the Dior Homme jacket that looks like Pollock woke up one day and decided to become a designer.

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Dior: Reinterpreting Art for Fashion

My lovely roommates CW and SM have one of Hokusai's prints of Mount Fuji on our living room wall. The Great Wave at Kanagawa is terrifyingly stunning. Sharp white tendrils creep off the end of wave with calculated precision and Mount Fuji sits calmly in the distance.

I came upon this piece perusing through the Dior Couture Spring '07 collection and I love how Galliano reinterpreted Hokusai's work. The proportions are sinusoidal. They vary from the wide, bell sleeves and full hoop skirt, to the narrow, banded waist and slim legs poking out of the gown. The crinkled bow around the model's neck looks like an elegant wave but the graphic print creeps up the gown adding turbulence to the white stillness.
I love it when the lines between Art and Fashion blur. It's beautiful to think that you could wrap your most immediate form of expression, your body, in something inspiring to the many who meander through The Met.

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