This is a fantastic documentary, it really sheds light on the fashion industry and what I got the most for it is the over sexual outfits forced on these models.
Consider the term & function of a "model": a form to drape fabric upon to $ell extraordinary clothe$. If the employed form enhances sales, it is paid a special salary - which enhances the value of the clothing however, A model's humanity, dignity ( preferences) have to be irrelevant to job description because The diverse panoply of customers (& sales) are the point for any huge, quite $erious, business.
The Fashion Industry is a Good and a Great Achievement, for the Economy, the Society and Culture in General. It shows Elegance, Haute-Couture, Beauty, Fine-Arts to Everyone who could afford it. Bravo !
In October 2020 the reality is different! In those days Vogue was the secure fortress of Fashion. Nowadays the building is being destroyed from the inside and the outside. Every day is losing some bricks and a few stones. Its ending is near because the times are changing, in worst terms, due to the social media. Where can we find a new secure fantasy fortress today? I mean a place where somebody shines like Linda in an add of Gianni Versace Couture, and whoever watches that pic assumes, without a doubt, that she's happy, Gianni is untouchable, everybody buys and wears that kind of merchandise and Vogue is just the right address to see what is successful and desirable. I suppose that these illusions are a thing of the past: Linda has never found a husband. Gianni was killed outside the door of his mansion, Oriental princesses who could splurge on couture were abused all the time, and, as funny side, there are around too many critics that accuse Vogue to be Not inclusive, even though it has always been an aspirational magazine and, obviously, has always employed the young, thin IT girls to wear their excessively expensive garments, so I really don't see their problem. These people feel the urge to transform Vogue in I-D, but why? Does somebody understand this social change ( perception, feelings)? I mean a Chanel dress sells, in this period, for 29000 pounds. How could you make the perception of something like this more inclusive, without breaking the mirror of our minds? I just let everybody remember that the fashion shows, for the last 5 years at least, are the worst in fashion history with all their stylists and influencers that cannot create what we need the most: day-dreams.
Personally, I am grateful for ready-to wear which, historically, has NOT been around so very long. Am neither gifted at making my own clothing (like everyone below High Aristocracy HAD TO DO for thousands of years) nor of the upper 1%....so, even if I have to pay more, it still saves money, time, effort & frustration 🌹
Hunkering down in your train seat, sofa, the bath tub or in bed with your ipad just doesn't have the same feeling of indulgence that it did when you had a glossy in your hands. Magazines propped up this entire world and today they are a shadow of what they used to be but there are glimmers of it still. Even Billie Eilish had to get rid of her gross lime green hair in order to appear in Vogue this month.
How dated, Wasn't it? Not speaking about the clothes, many actually desirable, much more than what Acne and Balenciaga did for fall-winter 2020-2021. I m speaking about the underlining mentality that motivates the script.
