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(Re)collecting The Past: Fashion, Wardrobe, Memory by Carolyn Babula
https://scholarship.rice.edu/handle/1911/18506
Here’s what i pulled:
Divestment ritual : people get rid of their old goods and attempt to recreate themselves.. they want their old selves to die… RIP!!!!! we want to send our past selves to the grave.
“Things are important because they carry cultural meaning” ok exactly and we’re trying to DELETE that meaning and our association with it.
Harold Koda says people ask why Armani as a fashion exhibition not Vivienne Westwood, and people think art exhibits should only be gimmicky artsy typical styles of fashion. Yes, my opinion is that spectacle is necessary because it speaks to the masses, and most people don’t have the capacity to analyze fashion critically as it is, so it doesn’t matter.
I actually don’t want to talk about that, it’s a great paper, read it!!!!!!!!
I love Dana Michel - Montreal based contemporary performance artist
*french accent* ARTIST - I want to see her work live
Ok the paper talks about how Marc by Marc Jacobs ss 2003 was his opportunity to give women the ability to relive their youth in a more risky way, am I crazy??? A lot of designers have said that, no? Or have I just read that quote before? I feel like reliving your youth is such an interesting concept, I think that’s why I’ve started turning to Raf Simons early collections really centered on youth. When Raf constructs youth, it allows men to subvert their relationship with orthodox masculinity (Jay Bowstead thank YOU). In my eyes, that’s why I turn to that construction of masculinity. I think I’ve always turned to an atypical construction of masculinity (queering men’s fashion peeeeriod), and I think considering Hedi Slimane and Raf Simons’ constructions of masculinity to include adolescence and even boyhood allows entrance into masculine dressing that isn’t otherwise afforded to non-men. I don’t usually value youth, I don’t think, especially in fashion. I love mature and adult dressing. But I think I dress very youthful to reclaim some part of not being able to dress to my preferences in quite early childhood and early adolescence. And I think that draws me to Raf, and I hope I can reconcile that because I cant be a teen boy and shouldn’t want to. But there’s something so peaceful about imagining that reality— growing up an adolescent boy being into Raf Simons. Many of my friends actually lived that life, maybe that’s what I think is cool. I think it’s maybe valuable to have been a girl into that stuff, but there’s something valuable about it as a boy to me— I do not have the answers.
I think fashion is interesting because you get to have a paradoxical relationship with dressing where you’re trying to fix the past to construct an identity in the present to hope to better your future self. You’re wearing emotions you had in the past (anxiety, urgency, etc.) around consuming clothing and using that emotion to assuage current emotions (anxiety, urgency, lol? just me?) to construct a better future. Weird. past present future stuff lol
I want to go to all the defunct vintage shops in that paper, I’m sad I can’t. I don’t even want to check if they’re shut down, they’re either shut down or haunted and still there (which is worse?)
There’s so much money to go around, I have to go shopping when I get paid because I have been stressed for the first time in two years. I’m getting services (nails done, hair done, massage, facial treatment) then clothes. This will shape my relationship with the clothes, I think. I have to spend money!
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