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10 Wednesday Mar 2010
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Okay, I’m not hip to haute couture. I’ll just say that right out in front.
But is it just me, or do all those models look just as dead as the designer? I can’t think of a single time or place I would be caught dead in any one of those “gowns”, so maybe that is the statement being made?
I followed a couple of links that were on the side bar of the set of photos you linked to, and the gentleman’s previous work was just as wearable and accessible and practical as the stuff he designed before he died. I guess if you are an actress looking for something to almost wear at the Oscars, McQueen would be your guy.
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One of my favourite things is watching the Red Carpet segment of the Oscars. And I think this collection is beautiful, though I agree that the model is creepy looking.
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Well, all you have to do is look at my “fashion statement” and know that I am completely clueless as to fashion. I do like the fabrics he is using but it’s all just a little too fussy for my taste.
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Are those models? I thought they were posed mannequins.
I like opulent fabrics and shaped designs, as long as a person is at a Society For Creative Anachronism event. Which is something I did once, even running up Renaissance costumes on the sewing machine. But if you weren’t being presented at court, I don’t know what anyone would do with an outfit like those. They’re certainly nicer to look at than most of the stuff in “Vogue,” which my chiropractor’s wife weirdly buys for the office waiting room.
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(BTW, what is it with these guys who cannot get over their mothers dying? Robert E. Howard, who wrote the original novels about “Conan the Barbarian,” pulled the same stunt, and I’ve heard of several other instances. Newsflash, guys, your parents are statistically going to predecease you. Get over it.)
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I don’t know anyone who takes the death of a parent particularly well unless you hated their guts. His mother died in February. It will probably take me over a month to get over her death. I’m still not thrilled to have lost my step-father, who died in 1988. I don’t think anyone just thinks “Too bad. So sad… What’s for lunch…”
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“Her” meaning my mother…
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I’m willing to stipulate that there are some parents who’ve behaved in such a way that they would actually be missed — but the men-committing-suicide-after-Mom-dies is kind of extreme isn’t it? Every so often, I read about this happening, and it sounds like Mom with her Philip Wyliesque stranglehold on Sonny, reaching from beyond the grave to drag him in with her. I guess we’ll never know, but it always creeps me out.
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He had been suffering depression before her death.
As someone who suffers from chronic depression, myself, I know that facing every day things while depressed is difficult enough, let alone the death of a parent.
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Well, I think we can all agree that killing oneself over your mother’s death is NOT a healthy reaction, and if AQ hadn’t been depressed he may not have done so.
I did basically go “that’s sad … what’s for lunch?” when my parents died. Yet I was gutted for a whole week after Sunny’s death. The pain was almost unbearable, and I still find myself missing him terribly and weeping at times. Is this a reflection on me or my parents? Or even Sunny, for that matter.
I think it is natural to mourn. And each person does so in their own way. But when mourning takes over one’s life then I would also wonder about what the *real* issues are, which is I think what Sled meant.
I’m always frustrated and actually somewhat angry when I hear about someone killing themselves. Not angry at the person exactly, more about the waste of a life. And this feeling has increased since the cancer 50/50 death sentence. Trust me, I’ve had some very bleak moments over the past couple of years, but never once did I ever wish myself dead. And anyhow, my cats need me…
Mudhooks, be sure to use your security net of friends when the time comes. *hugs*
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dragonprincess took me clothes watching last weekend. We spent some time going through exhibitions of clothes made by a famous costume designer and a historical exposé at two different museums. I can appreciate the work and the craftwo/manship, but I rarely if ever see anything I actually would wear.
I guess I’m too much of a linen slacks and birkenstock person to appreciate haute couture.
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Well quite. I don’t think anyone would consider these outfits were designed for every day wear. I appreciate certain clothing designers in the same way I appreciate other works of art – there doesn’t need to be a practical purpose to them.
And as you know, it’s comfy natural fabrics and Mephistos for me. 🙂
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I like some of the pieces that he designed. Some of the things were rather “out there” but he did many very wearable fashions. And, while I don’t necessarily understand the “high fashion” industry, much of what is created can be seen as more art than wearable fashion. Of course, like any other art form, you have stuff that is crap and stuff that is good and sometimes it’s hard to make you your mind which is which.
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