Patty, I love the idea of garments as storytelling. That is a great analogy and I have found that to be so true. Even my Barbie doll from decades ago, had a story to tell in her FABULOUS wardrobe! I have not dressed like her but still love the beauty of fabric, shape, color and a wondrous and meandering road of our life-tale. Garments: a visual story!
Thank you so much for the mention, it really is such a pleasure eventhough I am far from leading with example!
As a fashion professional, I identify a lot with your evolution and vision of the fashion industry. When we are young we absorb everything, negative and positive, which makes us observe things with a little bit more distance as we get older. The bruises that the fashion industry leaves us are also a useful learning. It is so interesting that you said that when you were a child you wanted to be a writer, but that fashion found you serendipitously. I belive that people working in fashion and writers have one thing in common: curiosity. I think it is something people don't see because now, we are used to thinking fashion people as mainly visual people and nothing else when we are much more than that. And you just showed it with that beautiful post!
Yes, you're right, curiosity is at the centre of it. I think it's because both fashion and writing harbor narrative to create emotional connection and you need to be curious to find the story, you need to want to know more. Fashion wouldn't be the phenomenon it is today if it was just the clothes, don't you think?
How funny you're saying this as I listened a podcast today in which the interviewee was Valentino's Pierpaolo Piccioli who said that an image held a stronger power than writing - even if the latter triggers imagination. And I disagree because I think one cannot be without the other.
Yes, curiosity is THE main quality every creative (should) have.
Fashion involves many aspects of art and daily so it can't only be about the clothes. Clothes were created because there were specific needs, weather, social classes etc., so yes I agree with you. Clothes can't just be about clothes.
What?? He said that? Interesting of him to say such a thing when he relied on a quote by Passolini for his fw 20 couture show during the pandemic, would that film have meant the same without the quote? Probably not. As you say, one cannot be without the other. I think it's funny how sometimes people prefer to understand things in polarising terms. I mean, why does one artistic form has to be over another? I agree Emmanuelle, that's not how we perceive emotion, you can feel equally moved by a piece of music, a text or a film, it will be more or less powerful depending on circumstance.
I think our minds want to find certainty in comparison, perhaps to make us feel validated in our choices. One other thing may be happening now though, with such an overload of visual stimuli, we're becoming lazier, some people find content over 1 min long exhausting, never mind reading it... 😂
Patty, I love the idea of garments as storytelling. That is a great analogy and I have found that to be so true. Even my Barbie doll from decades ago, had a story to tell in her FABULOUS wardrobe! I have not dressed like her but still love the beauty of fabric, shape, color and a wondrous and meandering road of our life-tale. Garments: a visual story!
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Hello Patty,
Thank you so much for the mention, it really is such a pleasure eventhough I am far from leading with example!
As a fashion professional, I identify a lot with your evolution and vision of the fashion industry. When we are young we absorb everything, negative and positive, which makes us observe things with a little bit more distance as we get older. The bruises that the fashion industry leaves us are also a useful learning. It is so interesting that you said that when you were a child you wanted to be a writer, but that fashion found you serendipitously. I belive that people working in fashion and writers have one thing in common: curiosity. I think it is something people don't see because now, we are used to thinking fashion people as mainly visual people and nothing else when we are much more than that. And you just showed it with that beautiful post!
Yes, you're right, curiosity is at the centre of it. I think it's because both fashion and writing harbor narrative to create emotional connection and you need to be curious to find the story, you need to want to know more. Fashion wouldn't be the phenomenon it is today if it was just the clothes, don't you think?
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How funny you're saying this as I listened a podcast today in which the interviewee was Valentino's Pierpaolo Piccioli who said that an image held a stronger power than writing - even if the latter triggers imagination. And I disagree because I think one cannot be without the other.
Yes, curiosity is THE main quality every creative (should) have.
Fashion involves many aspects of art and daily so it can't only be about the clothes. Clothes were created because there were specific needs, weather, social classes etc., so yes I agree with you. Clothes can't just be about clothes.
What?? He said that? Interesting of him to say such a thing when he relied on a quote by Passolini for his fw 20 couture show during the pandemic, would that film have meant the same without the quote? Probably not. As you say, one cannot be without the other. I think it's funny how sometimes people prefer to understand things in polarising terms. I mean, why does one artistic form has to be over another? I agree Emmanuelle, that's not how we perceive emotion, you can feel equally moved by a piece of music, a text or a film, it will be more or less powerful depending on circumstance.
I think our minds want to find certainty in comparison, perhaps to make us feel validated in our choices. One other thing may be happening now though, with such an overload of visual stimuli, we're becoming lazier, some people find content over 1 min long exhausting, never mind reading it... 😂