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17/06/2013 14:15

 

Make the term "social theme of fashion" you might be thinking about things like hemp, comfortable sandals, slogan t-shirts and baby slings colorful. And it's hard not to feel slightly pinch when the alarm couture gets all of Consciousness: Vogue editorial Hurricane Sandy earlier this year comes to mind.Chanel Bags On Sale The flagship magazine "neo-style stuff," Q & A on feminism with a plus size model, a dominatrix, a Playboy Playmate and Aubrey Plaza, and a dissection of "feminine" over dressing "feminist." Without reading the magazine, it is difficult to find a function of the difference between femininity and feminism really break the patriarchy (is it really possible to be a "girly girl" and also a raging feminist, humorless imagine). But the magazine raises interesting questions about the difficult relationship between fashion and feminism. When Sarah Jessica Parker said earlier this month, the industry is still very macho. Recent examples of bad PR for the fashion industry - as a model scout lurking outside clinical eating disorder, terrible working conditions due to the fast fashion chain and the fact that Terry Richardson is still used there - not really help. Moreover lives impossible aspirations, narrow definitions of beauty and really fugly acceptable clothing, the fashion industry is not in favor of trying to get out of a hole of his own making. Models like Casey Legler, a woman who catalogs couture men and Andrej Pejic, a man who works for fashion women models were organized as such standards difficult. But the result, as Bidisha commentator remarked in The Guardian, maybe they only repeat that you have to be thin and beautiful, no matter what skin you're Clem Bastow writes as a woman in a suit "was not a revolution of the genre do." In addition, a handsome boy modeling is a wedding dress does not necessarily make it easier for women who are trying to adapt to a beauty ideal - or for men who want to wear wedding dresses. Also, what is in fashion spreads to the "strong women" as models of restraint briefcases and wearing a tie and strode across the room with their legs stretched out like a stork? The strange feelings that we may have on fashion, Tavi Gevinson recently prodigy who has been to fame as a fashion blogger haired granny 11 years rose five years ago. To Tavi but as fashion has lost some of its luster as she was more interested in feminism and creative culture, with the creation of Rookie Mag, she does not know that fashion is totally stupid. When she AdWeek magazine said in April: "Sometimes I even bothered when people are like," You have this blog directly [Style Rookie]? And I'm afraid they will think I'm weak because I write about fashion, or habit. I truly believe that fashion and feminism can be friends. I even believe that fashion can be a tool of feminism and self-expression and individuality and empowerment to be. But clearly there are errors with the industry is really grinding. " Fashion and feminism can be friends? Why, yes, they can. Karen Elson model that feminism fashion, and should be more definitely. Why? For if we believe that fashion is not feminist, maybe we are just buying into the same old tired cliches that women in silence, even those that feminism will cut. As Elson said: "I am also in the models that I know are proud feminists, and I can tell you that it really is possible to be both, if you know that the models can not assume political. We can not have strong opinions and beliefs, you are just experiencing the misogynist vision popularly believed that beautiful women are stupid. " But more than that, are the dresses, long had the power to facilitate and support change. View the suffragettes, led by their clothing choices. Check valves, cheerful driven from their corsets and danced in the fountains, and the Riot Grrl movement in the 90s when the likes of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre frontwoman Kathleen Hanna's clothing as a means of getting his messages. Tavi and see all the great young women who know that they can love fashion and always reaches the Rookie wise. And then see how Vice-wedge industry as we see ourselves and what we can wear dictate be slippery. In an interview with British television presenter and writer for the first time Kristy Wark, a woman using bear his Armani jackets as "armor", Guardian journalist asked Jess Cartner-Morley on appeals both feminist and really mode. Regarding Wark said: "Why should it be against feminism interested in the style, design, line and color and cut Why a desire to feel good about themselves, to look modern, its not look like Simone de disagree with feminism? Beauvoir! It looked fabulous. " Chanel Bags 0utlet As Wark asked in the interview, dressing itself can be the best way to fit your feminism in the way. And how slavishly to trends is not true love style or your true self, fashion does not necessarily mean that you buy in the worst way by means of pieces, or opting out of the debate on broader issues that spits in the fashion world.