Oh well as always I'm running like a headless barbie doll around the net.. I love fashion and anything related to this art its entertaining and sometimes just too colorful. There was some time in my life when I get a fashion mag twice a year and it's always a back issue hahahahaha! well anyway my point is I used to, and still wear things that I simply feel like wearing, clothes and stuff that makes me comfortable, and if it looks so different I always give it a go.. But not that fashion victim of some sort kind of churva!.. if Im not making any sense here hit me with computer LCD!.
Ok so I'm around Style.com tonight and was reading this interview with Julie Gilhart, if you don't know her Google that! it left a huge "?" in my $70 L'Occitane ultra rich creme with spf15 covered epidermis.. I shall share a few sections of it and I hope it'll enlighten all of us.. I find her wise ladies et gentlemen gays lesbians et UFOs..
Style.com to Julie on Eco Fashion: Talking of how things are made, you’ve been a vocal champion of eco-fashion, if that’s the correct term. I don’t know if you like that term. How important is that, going forward?
I think it’s actually about being conscious. Green, eco, all those words—it’s just about being more conscious. [Take] somebody like Isabel Toledo, who’s doing everything in New York…and only buys fabric to order and knows exactly where everything is being done and pays fair wages and is doing everything in a very sustainable way, as much as possible. It’s not easy to be completely conscious in the way of sustainability and organic and eco, because not all of the materials are available yet, and the resources aren’t there. I just had this experience with Colin Firth’s wife, Livia, who’s amazing. She [was] trying to go through the whole awards season wearing clothes that are made in a sustainable way, and [was] having a really hard time…She has to be in something that’s designed well and is glamorous, but is actually very conscious—and it’s not easy, it’s very difficult. But I think it should become easier…If I’m going to work in fashion, I don’t want to be part of the things that are contributing to a worse environment. I want to be part of something that’s contributing to a better environment, and so whatever little we can do, I’m going to try to do that. So it means supporting people that you believe really want to try to do a better job in that way, and actually it goes back to some of the things that the customers really want. They want things that are made well, that are made in a conscious way, that have long-term values, that are beautiful. All of that is part of the story. It’s not just about eco and organic.
Jogels:[ we know that there are already a bunch of designers who are vocal advocates like Vivienne Westwood and Stella but is Eco-fashion really possible? with zero carbon footprints? can fashion really GO green all the way or some businesses are just doing this to ride the green beast cause "Green is in" at the moment? can you, people, really wear an onion sack just encase?] LOL!
It has to be well designed. You’re not going to get excited about a show that has great music, great models, and not great clothes. But if you have all three of them, you’re like, wow, this is great, totally inspired. It’s the $64,000 question. How valid are fashion shows? If the Rodarte girls didn’t have a fashion show, would you be able to get the essence of that collection? You would look at it in the store and say, that’s really great and that’s really interesting and unique, but I always go back to that [Spring 2010] fashion show, and I’m like, wow, I loved all that smoke. I loved the way the models looked so goth and how they mixed in that plaid and the boots were all thigh-high and strappy. It gives you the feeling that these girls have a certain power, but if you were just to look at it in a store, it’s just a dress on a hanger. It came from that source, so it’s our job to express the power behind that. That’s where a Style.com comes in, [saying] that’s what we saw and it’s kind of amazing…I love Style.com, it’s the Wikipedia of fashion…It’s really like, just the facts, ma’am, please. Here are the pictures and here’s what we can tell you about the show and here you go. That’s one of the things that has changed fashion, Style.com…it’s like Xerox and the copier. Style.com is an amazing Internet engine. You put it up there with Google and all that other stuff. It’s pretty incredible—it’s changed a lot of things.
Jogels: [all clothes are just a piece of cloth on a hanger when nobody's wearing it? is that correct? yes that's true! hahahaha anyway so Style.com is the Wikipedia of fashion huh? and please tell me and stretch the line "it’s like Xerox and the copier."?? no really I have to agree on Julie not everybody is invited to watch the live shows but is it possible that one day they can organize a fashion show in a football field like concept where they can put more audience?. Nah forget about it better buy a magazine or visit webbies..
Is everything just moving too fast, at this point?
Everything is moving too fast, way too fast. Whatever we can do to slow it down, I’m all for. But again, it’s going back to fashion being a reflection of the times. Things are moving too fast. We have to build into our system spaces where we can be creative, where we can rest. I mean, pity the poor designer. Oh, my God, I talk to so many of them. Most of their job is working on things that continue their brand but aren’t necessarily the creative part of what they love to do. I don’t think that’s really appropriate, to tell you the truth. I mean, it’s like an artist having to sell his paintings and do all the cataloging. Really, his talent is doing the art, so let the guy do his art. Let’s give him enough time to do his art, and if he needs to run the business, time to do that. But they’re all scrambling. It’s really a lot. I talked to someone recently and he’s definitely one of the top designers in the world and he’s burned out. I’m like, oh, my God, I feel so bad for this person, because he works so hard and it’s just not right. He’s super successful, at the top of his career, but just struggling with the amount that this business requires of this person. I wish had a solution for him.
Jogels: [Okay I am a pig cause my commentaries are rubbish! no really I agree again yes it's really too fast and to realize how hard it is to think about "what's Next" all the time? oh wow that must be a tough life!? it is like always thinking how to dress up the World! the whole globe is in your shoulder, the weight of the fashion world, the critics in your face the banks the business oh great mother of pearls it's too much!!!... no wonder Donatella Versace looks stressed. but Bless their hearts without these people life in the 21st century could've been boring..
Well there it goes.. if you are not enlightened you have a problem hahahahaha
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