Reading this I recall John Berger with his discussions of the painted female visually reaching out to the viewer, “look at me I’m looking at you.”
These are look at me clothes and the wearer wants to know who is looking back. The Tigress surveying her environs.
Comparing Philo to Caravaggio seems off balance. I mean no offense here. Caravaggio has centuries of vibes built around his art. Seems Philo has a ways to go. Besides Caravaggio is modest even in his subject’s nakedness.
I don’t feel any modesty here. No one is demure, they are all barefaced bold.
Her lines and profiles are consistently contemporary.
The rawness of Philo’s zipper pants need a gritty partner like Basquait. A more in your face kind of artist.
Natasha always gets me fascinated by things I'm not interested in. I'm always surprised. (nice) So now *I* am paying attention to "fashion" and came across this, in the spirit of ANJ: "So what's happening now on the London fashion front? The fashion writer Anouchka Grose* calls the latest trend 'post-capitalist apathy chic.' And you won't find it in Vogue. This new look is all about not having a look. They buy clothes from Kilo Shops where clothes are sold by weight and not style." (The Spectator 12-23, Cosmo Landesman.) ! *I find that Anouchka Grose is a Lacanian psychoanalyst as well as a fashion writer - Fashion: A Manifesto (2023).
My powers of fashion observation are very poor.
Can a photograph ever capture the quality you attribute to Wes in your novel? And if so, I'd love to see an example.
Proust, as I recall, liked a designer named Fortuny.
I enjoyed this piece. Thank you for writing this.
Reading this I recall John Berger with his discussions of the painted female visually reaching out to the viewer, “look at me I’m looking at you.”
These are look at me clothes and the wearer wants to know who is looking back. The Tigress surveying her environs.
Comparing Philo to Caravaggio seems off balance. I mean no offense here. Caravaggio has centuries of vibes built around his art. Seems Philo has a ways to go. Besides Caravaggio is modest even in his subject’s nakedness.
I don’t feel any modesty here. No one is demure, they are all barefaced bold.
Her lines and profiles are consistently contemporary.
The rawness of Philo’s zipper pants need a gritty partner like Basquait. A more in your face kind of artist.
Natasha always gets me fascinated by things I'm not interested in. I'm always surprised. (nice) So now *I* am paying attention to "fashion" and came across this, in the spirit of ANJ: "So what's happening now on the London fashion front? The fashion writer Anouchka Grose* calls the latest trend 'post-capitalist apathy chic.' And you won't find it in Vogue. This new look is all about not having a look. They buy clothes from Kilo Shops where clothes are sold by weight and not style." (The Spectator 12-23, Cosmo Landesman.) ! *I find that Anouchka Grose is a Lacanian psychoanalyst as well as a fashion writer - Fashion: A Manifesto (2023).