The First Post runs a simple issue - is this tacky or not?
It got a chorus of complaints from traditional Japanese but the French designer was disdainful:
[Ines] Ligron responded to the outrage with French disdain. "The conservative and fashion dinosaurs are criticising her [Miyasaka’s] costume, meanwhile the fashionistas love it," she said. "I care only about the movers and shakers in the fashion industry."
Well that's all right then. The Dominique Prieur School of Cultural Respect is not to be sniffed at. As long as the fashionisti notice you, Madame, that's all that matters in interpreting Japanese tradition.
Or is this a surly reaction?
Now who's "doing" totty?
ReplyDeleteMy thought is she's managed to fall between two stools.
ReplyDeleteShe's managed to offend the Japanese, i.e. show them up as a bunch of humourless gits, but the outfit is not very sexy really and I think it looks awful.
Angus - just trying to keep up, sir.
ReplyDeleteMark - it does.
It's a storm in a teacup. No one with his feet on the ground really cares a fig for the opinions of the handful of self-regarding prima donnas who constitute the fashion 'industry', or the efforts of an ambitious young girl to draw attention to herself.
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I find it quite interesting when it's the men who comment on 'fashion'... ;)
ReplyDeleteI think its tacky!
ReplyDeleteWell, it's hardly a traditional kimono, so I don't see that the traditional Japanese can complain on that score. Personally, I think it's ridiculous.
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