Saturday, June 6, 2009
somebody lurks in the shadows
I've been listening to M83's "Saturdays=Youth" for the past two weeks on repeat. Check out their awesome album covers.
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Holy hell - I think I'm in love. I need that skeleton bodysuit. I'm going to make my way over to a Halloween store as soon as humanly possible!
ReplyDeleteI sooooooooo want the skeleton suit :) hahaha :)
ReplyDeleteabsolutely fantastic styling. Do you think they styled their outfits themselves? I want to see more pics of them!
ReplyDeletepst- we left an award for you on our blog.
ReplyDeleteoh I love it!!! Great images on the cover. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteOh my, what beautiful covers, I do love the lighting.
ReplyDeleteAnd I actually wanted to write a post on exactly what you said dear!! I think that both sides of the argument can be condescending in their ways of addressing the debate. Talking of homeless people and their innate style is applying your thoughts to their style of circumstance. Whilst they have a fashion style, although it shows, it is not always a conscious choice to look fashionable. I find it insensitive to reduce them to their fashion choices alone.
But at the same time, arguing that we can't take inspiration from, say a tribal peoples, just because they do not happen to live to the standards of life I take for granted is equally ignorant.
I remember watching a series on the BBC about a group of young fashionistas going to India to see how cheap high street fashion was made. This one girl was standing in the middle of the sweatshop slums and shouting and crying about how disgusting it was. Whilst she may have been complaining about how the quality of their living area was inexcusably poor, she was also offending them! I felt like smacking her through the tv. They were standing around her, happy to be in work, and welcoming her into their homes. She was on her high horse talking about how they needed to improve the 'sickening' housing for those workers.
But what she didn't realise is that many of those workers had come there from places a LOT worse. I'm not saying that we should be happy for them living in those poor conditions. But if we stopped the influx of cheap fashion, and if the sweatshops were closed down, I would hate to think of what their lives would be like, without even the meagre amount of money they work so hard to get. I can't trash talk what they work hard to earn, but I can try and make sure what they earn is fair. Insulting where they have to live day in, day out is disgustingly rude behaviour.
It is definitely a difficult line to tow. We can't apply our standards and ways of thinking to others, but we also can't belittle them either. I look at people for fashion inspiration merely from an aesthetic point of view. The moment one talks about how they feel or how they decide on something, it becomes mere conjecture and guess work, putting words in their mouths.
That skeleton suit just made my day!
ReplyDelete-Noelle
love your blog, by the way :]