I had been reluctant to explore Stella McCartney's proposal. Not for her being a super renowned person. Because first, I believe in everyone's talent, and secondly because, ironically, I am so deadly ignorant that after being hooked by her majestic clothes, I found out that she is the daughter of ex-Beatle Paul McCartney. (Maybe that is what I get for missing a good listen to their repertoire through all my life).
For resort 2012, McCartney blew us away with a fusion of symmetry, Hawaii, sartorial and mismatch, considering of course that a good print will always catch my eye. I love how a collision of things I personally adore came together in this resort presentation, for example I have always been crazy about those tourist-Hawaiian-out-of-place-even-a-little-tacky prints, and I have always seen them usually attached to men's wardrobe. So through this relation, the collection also touches another topic in such a soft manner that I adore, which is the ambiguity between masculine and feminine, but at the same time making that so naturally that the collection stands by itself as simple, direct, fresh and fragile.
Stella McCartney's resort 2012 made me get to a deadly conclusion that will definitely make me cherish every detail more: I am extremely attracted by an extravagant shock, when fashion's the matter. This certainly has to stop, since I am not letting all beauty in simplicity and in plain styles captivate me. Actually I believe that in all artforms, not only me, but everyone I know is really demanding for cherishing a piece. We tend to avoid surprise, we tend to avoid detail, we tend to avoid structure and we tend to avoid analysis. I guess this is a message for all of us to return to the raw origin of communication, where everything's so surprising as the first time we got to see it and experience it.
I am so glad to cherish Stella's proposal now, because she has let me observe closely at every little thing, way beyond an ostrich feather Dior haute couture hat or a neon embroided Alexander McQueen gown. At the end of the day inspiration and passion can be found in a white t-shirt or in lace and leather; as well as in Vivaldi's Four Seasons or in The Smiths' The Queen is Dead, etc. I think that from now on, I am going to be 200% more open minded to every soul's proposal. Because as Stella has already melted my brains, I think there wasn't any reason at all to be reluctant about her in the first place.
I love how disturbingly beautiful is to be surprised.
All runway photos: vogue.it
3 comments:
Surprises lie in the beautiful proposal of art. And art lies behind the walls of our skin to be found on the sparks of our intuitive perception and sometimes, just sometimes, our very own soul.
Devoid of my inexistant knowledge in fashion topics, having never been sumerged in such types of unusual arts, i do strongly perceive that those previous colorful pictures weren't just a representation of actual fashion industry, nor a simple collection replaceable each six months, but a demonstration of the infinite boundaries of creation, symbolized with an ingenious mixture of "excludable" elements, randomly yet perfectly constructed. at the same time, it also caught my interest the ability that this kind of art has in expressing in such a unique form the multiplicity of human behavior, which can't be reducted into just some determined characteristics nor in one specific clasification. such feeling, that in some way compells me to reconsider my position infront of fashion, is for me, exactly expressed in this collection, where it doesn't matter the classic estructures considered as "relevant and unavoidable" in the work of a fashion designer, but instead all the importance is given to the personal and natural human emotions, independent from any rule.
love the freshness of the collection, they provoke on me an inexplicable feeling of relaxation.
My dear friend:
By the present I let myself to inform you, that the way you write, not only inspires me, but it also shows me a Brave new world that has been hidden and yet so closed to me my whole life. I also have always believed in everyone's talent and while exploring this blog I progressively start involving in an experience so exciting, that there isn't any other choice for me than to believe blindly in yours.
Sincerly, your arab friend.
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