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Nov 27, 2021 8:55 PM
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ConsumerOfStories
It'd be weirder if they came up with this stuff completely sober
unmuted
99.9% of fashion doesnt look like this. your post is full of avant-garde examples with the intent being creative, not functional. duh.
Dharc261
these battle pass skins on fortnite just keep getting weirder
TheResolver
I have always felt that fashion is just Avant Garde art and I'm not sure if I am meh or loathe it, mostly meh, never amazed or impressed.
Kopar
When I see these, I sometimes make a little game of "If I had to wear one of these, which would I wear?" #11. #11 for sure.
ThunderChief00
yep
Artsisdead
I used to find it weird as well, but it's not about "fashionable" clothing, a catwalk fashion show is an art expose using the human body
TheVakarian
Shame they still mostly use the one kind
ButtholeButts
I think fashion shows make a lot more sense when you look at them like you would watch a pro wrestling match. They're meant to be absurd.
Vyrro
Yes, starving humans and using them as a canvas is totally normal
frickthisshiz
Its not the 90s, they dont have to starve. What they do have to be is all the same size as a mannequin so the designer doesn’t have to alter
blitzCommunityBaroness
And I still find the medium makes me cringe, so..
llamamushroom
You're allowed not to like a kind of art, some people hate theatre *shrug emoji*
BythepowerofchristIamtheLaderlappen
#1 I remember that boss in FF 3 (or ff6 or whatever)
TrueLegateDamar
Nah that's Excella in Resident Evil 5
JustBoone
Why is it that in dystopian fiction the gang bosses dress like this and everyone fears them? Oh right cause they are insane and have guns.
ButtholeButts
Now a real killer, when he picked up the ZF-1, he would have immediately asked about the little red button on the bottom of the gun.
Vyrro
Lappyrat92
I think the deliberate over exaggeration of an esthetic serves as a template to go off of when designing “real” clothes. That and publicity
SJBSavageInk
#6 literally none of them made me go, wut?, harder than this one.
youlooklikehalfabuttpuppet
Just imagine getting this outfit assigned and they’re like “oh yeah, you gotta stick this in your mouth too”
SJBSavageInk
Someone has a dentist fetish. I guarantee it.
youlooklikehalfabuttpuppet
That fucken contraption just added to horror of having braces. Having worn one = do not recommend.
jujuismyname
Love it. It’s art. It’s 100% not meant to be functional.
rabiesraeven
Maybe they start with batshit and tune down until consumers can stomach it.
CakeTerrorizer
Yes, that's how the fashion industry works
ispendtomuchtimehere
the parties I go to..I'd wear all of these
Millstone85
You just don't get it. /s
override367
money laundering
SwaghettiYologneseWithMemeballs
Technically speaking, it's called haute couture, and it *is* an art.
Rattic
It is not everything is for your consumption.
Hemelsblauw
This
AnonOmis1000
I mean you're not e timely wrong. This stuff isn't meant to be worn anywhere but a catwalk
SwayzeS
This stuff I wouldn't hang on the wall of a museum, let alone in anyone's closet. It's all a bad joke, & a display of designers' huge egos!
RogerTheCactus
You can also say this for any painting you don't like that is expensive. Just because you don't like it, doesn't mean it's shit.
SwayzeS
These items weren't even designed for sale to be worn, but to display the designer's imaginations! These are not wearable at all!
RogerTheCactus
Yes, that's what art is, I don't know how that comes as a surprise to you. these are fashions shows not fashion sales.
Wetplanet
This is actually the nba pregame when the players walk into the stadium.
DPHENS
Iaimtomisbehave
DPHENS
TheStreetForce
This is like what the auto industry does with concept cars. "This is what we coooooould make. Instead, high waist mom jeans for the 9th time
rshewmaker6
I think it's just someone pranking models
lukas9356
I dont even think thats wrong... Which artists havent been on drugs...
floofnmeeps
Bunch of weird artistic experiments
graehall
It's creative self expression - and in Fashion just like other forms of art - there's celebration of the surreal as well as other styles.
SteelKnight
This sort of fashion is meant to be a wearable art piece, it doesn't necessarily have to look nice/good/pleasant
blitzCommunityBaroness
Actually convinced catwalk “fashion” is just an excuse for designers to degrade and humiliate conventionally good looking people in public..
prinnnneh
Runway fashion isn’t meant for going shopping, it’s marketing for brands. Who’d attend a practical wear fashion show more than once?
rossimus
When you realize fashion shows are closer to worn sculptures at an art gallery than clothes sold at a store it makes a lot more sense.
XplodingUnicornGlitter
These are art pieces, not meant to be worn by the average person. They’re meant to be showcased on people and the runway - that’s it.
JimboTCB
#8 is the ultimate evolution of a Final Fantasy protagonist
emaneliforp
This isn't fashion, it's wearable art. Basically sculpture on a person
DamascusFire
I NEVER understand fashion like this. Is it like a hobby for rich people to see good looking people come out looking ridiculous?
CarlottaVonSprockett
I’m not entirely convinced that these weren’t costume ideas from The Fifth Element.
ButtholeButts
If it weren't for weird fashion designers like this, The Fifth Element would have been a LOT more boring.
CarlottaVonSprockett
Definitely! The costumes are…
morgrimmoon
Part of it is to show the designer's skill. If you can make something like that and not have it fall apart, you can do "reasonable" easily.
CakeTerrorizer
It's supposed to be ridiculous and fun. The intention is to produce something something original not practical
DamascusFire
A chair with legs missing from opposing corners attached to a table with the same feature is original... Stupid as fuck too tho..
GiantSandwichGod
Not exactly. What you typically see on the cat walk doesn’t make it to the shelves. For example, the mode with the mint blazer and balloon
GiantSandwichGod
Pants. The blazer would end up on the shelves, but the balloon pants would be made to order if someone really wanted to wear it
disodiumbenzoate
I fully believe high fashion is essentially a game a chicken where designers try to see how insane they can get before someone calls BS
BrokeMyFunnyBone
It's the original 4chan where people say and do shit for the sole purpose of making other people go wtf.
JesaraB
There is/was a reality competition show about fashion design. In one episode I remember they had to literally use trash to make outfits.
PDXairportCarpetFan
Derelicte
Rattic
I think people mock what they don’t understand. Yes this may be a fashion runway but not all fashion shows are meant to be commercial.
Nuclearun
Having dealt with Fashion people in the past, some of it is that, some of it is doodles from their sketchbooks, not intended for retail >
Nuclearun
("see, this is how creative I am!") and some of it is a hard flex about the creators technical skills "Sure, this is weird, but I bet you >
Nuclearun
couldn't stitch the damn thing together". And, just like the rest of the art world, I'd wager some of it is a tax dodge.
laughoutloud74
I wonder at what point the models stop thinking, "you got to be kidding me." and just become numb to it.
GooteMoo
Judging from their expressions in the above photos, about 5 years ago.
MysteriousAsTheDarksideOfTHEMOOOOOOOOOOON
Everything you wear borrowed ideas from high fashion and over time became normal to wear.
WhatisaYute
It’s wearable art, models are just the canvas. Remove the humans from these pics and you have a series MoMA installations.
Joylove
Plus you can have a regular collection with design cues from the couture that people can actually buy.
seyne
At some point they run out of good ideas, so just start throwing out wacky ones in the hopes maybe a few have good bits it them
MysteriousAsTheDarksideOfTHEMOOOOOOOOOOON
This is exactly correct. Giant retailers go to fashion shows and copy from them.
BallerinaDalekForeverSpinningAndSpinningItsTragicYouMofos
Haha did you see the Balenciaga 2022 s/s show... they copied a bunch of other well know design houses and brands...it was sort of hilarious.
BrokeMyFunnyBone
Balenciaga's the ones who sewed a shirt by the shoulders onto another shirt and sold that for $1300.
Rockafella83
Aslatra
It's more that if they made sensible things then you'd see cheap knockoff retail brands, so they make wanky stuff no one will dare reproduce
drucifer0
These pieces are avant garde art, their commercial utility is in brand reinforcement. Nobody is buying these things regardless of who->
drucifer0
makes them. This stuff is not a viable commercial product in any case.
ThePastmaster
I recently learned it's to show off how creative the designer is. None of these will be worn by a person as a garment.
Biscuity
A lot of this effect is lost because they are just put on normal people looking like they are running an errand.
starhewn
this, also to show off what new materials can do. More normal brands/designers attend to get ideas for their stuff based on what ppl like.
ThisisntJessitsJess
Yeah! Its about showing off skill more than anything.
LiquorishSunfish
Elements of the design are then translated into street fashion
Definitelynotsteve
I always hear that, but, like, what elements?? It feels like a throwaway phrase people use to excuse the insanity of fetish-man and eye-lamp
LiquorishSunfish
Colour palettes, being back peplums and shoulder pads, cutouts, etc.
Lucallia
some of these i can see where they can take ideas from it for the season. like #1 maybe the sheen and texture. the red one near the end
Lucallia
could promote the idea of asymmetry. the black and white one can give the idea of cut outs. The tons of balls one looks like it can
ImANurse
Under stable but why does such a circle jerk of designers and celebrity happen? There’s concept cars and I don’t think it gets the same
Rattic
Why is there a big circle jerk if gamers, truckers, chefs ? Because it’s fun. Fuck! This site is so unaccepting of things out of the norm.
ThePastmaster
He was asking why, not dismissing it. :P
ImANurse
Celebrity/politician hype, pre party, party, post party
ThePastmaster
Not really the same. Concept cars are about practicality and style. High fashion is more about art. Art that is showy and glamorous.
Jamesstin
Wtf are you talking about. I see concept car shit all the time
ImANurse
No shit I mentioned concept car but it’s not the same celebrity/politician circle jerk. Did you even read what I said or just
ImANurse
I sEe CoNCept CArs!!!