the neophile

‎”When Candy Spelling, wife of Dynasty producer Aaron Spelling, made her one protracted visit to the couture shows it was worth forty-two first-time customers to the House of Chanel. […]

Because she won’t fly, she took a private Pullmann across the Rockies from Los Angeles to Grand Central Station, then the QEII to Cherbourg, thence to the Rue Cambon by a fleet of Rolls-Royces. She bought lustily.”

Nicholas Coleridge, The fashion conspiracy: a remarkable journey through the empires of fashion (London: Heinemann, 1988), 170.

“Dass Möbel und Mode zusammengehören, ist eine relativ neue Sichtweise,” schreibt Tillmann Prüfer im gestern erschienenen ZEITmagazin (“Mode wildert im Möbelwald“, S. 36-37). Historisch betrachtet existiert dieses Zusammenspiel – und somit der scheinbar neuartige Einzug der Modemarken in die Welt der Möbel und Innenraumgestaltung – schon länger.

Lesenswerte Lektüre dazu sind der Ausstellungskatalog Dangerous Liaisons: Fashion and Furniture in the Eighteenth Century sowie Peter McNeils gleich betitelte Rezension “Dangerous Liaisons. Fashion and Furniture in the Eighteenth Century” (2005) in Fashion Theory.

“…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.

“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).

“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.

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