I saw a picture from the fall fashion shows and was intriguing. The model was wearing a mask that formed part of the outfit - in simplel terms it matched the dress. Of note, the model actually had a female shape with "hips" - compared to the other models. This was the collection of Iris van Herpen. Everything looks like costumes from a Space Fantasy movie. Previous collections look like underseas fantasies, and so on. Here's her website with the amazing strange creations HERE. Take a look through them. I don't think I would know this is clothing except that it isi shown on people.
In comparison, I reference my childhood era in the 1950s. Fashion designers were in the business of designing clothes that we would wear - with new colours and combinations each year. Think of it as "new and improved" rather than "radically different."
I reference the designers themselves and their own relationship to wearing clothes. When fashion designers today are men, the pictures of the designers show them wearing ordinary clothes - simple top and pants, with some wearing suits. Even pictures of contemporary female fashion designers show them wearing regular clothes.
So over the last 50 plus years, the art of clothes became separate and disconnected from wearing clothes. I wonder if this is this an opinion or is it a commentary on the transformation of fashion.
I asked AI to find out if there is validity to my theory. AI tells me that wearing clothes is functional and passive, whereas the art of clothes is intentional and creative.
So here we are with the picture of the model in the mask.
This mangled metal from the car wreckers seems to resemble a mask to me.
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