the neophile

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Anachronistic Couture?
Posted by Jonas on January 13, 2012 under Fashion and tagged as , ,

“…ceux qui s’orientent vers la haute couture ont souvent une vision un peu démodée de la femme, très tournée vers le passé.”

 

Laurence Benaïm, “La haute couture prise au piège de la mode,” Le Monde, January 23, 1995.

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“Zieh’s aus bevor mir übel wird”
Posted by Jonas on January 7, 2012 under Fashion and tagged as , ,

Baby Schimmerlos und die Mode“. Ausschnitte aus Helmut Dietls Fernsehserie Kir Royal (1986). Für ein Radiointerview mit dem Kostümdesigner Bernd Stockinger, hier entlang. Ab 02. Februar wird es eine Art Nachfolger von Kir Royal geben – “Zettl“.

The September Issue (2009) by R.J. Cutler. Tomorrow morning, on Swedish television channel SVT 2.

Subsequent to my guest entry on the German fashion blog Lesmads.de in November 2010,  I was repeatedly contacted by various students regarding academic literature on fashion bloggers and on fashion blogging. Recently, a worth reading article by scholar Agnès Rocamora – entitled ”Personal Fashion Blogs: Screens and Mirrors in Digital Self-portraits” – has been published in Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture (04/2011).

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‘Magical operations’
Posted by Jonas on January 4, 2012 under Fashion and tagged as , ,

“To play the game, one has to believe in the ideology of creation and, if you’re a fashion journalist, it is not advisable to have a sociological view of the world.”

Pierre Bourdieu, trans., Sociology in question (London: Sage, 1993), 138.

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still worth seeing
Posted by Jonas on January 3, 2012 under Fashion and tagged as , , ,

Im Hause Chanel (1/5) by Loïc Prigent (France, 2005). In German or French language.

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