Fashion is a piece of art.

Fashion is a piece of art.

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fashioninhistory:

Dressing Jacket
1885
Featured, is an excellent example of a dressing jacket from the period of the late 1880s to the mid-1890s. The combination of the ribbon and lace add an elaborate touch which is very typical of fashions from this time. Prior to this, lingerie and dressing wear was much simpler, but beginning in the 1880s the idea of luxury in fabrics and decoration became popular.- The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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fantasia:

Chanel xo

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vogue:

Vintage Classics Get a New Spin
Valentino dress, Saint Laurent by Hedi Slimane floppy hat. Céline sandals.
Photographed by David Sims

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tat-art:

Kristen McMenamy at McQ by Alexander McQueen FW 12

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no-lyfe-loser:

Perf

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dyaphanum:

THE BLACK DRESS
Haider Ackermann, Spring 2010 X Hussein Chalayan, Spring 1998 X explosion
This look from Haider Ackermann’s spring 2010 collection has always been one of my favorites, the model wearing a long black dress with a hand on her naked breast evokes to me a violent scene, maybe a rape, or a message about how women body are over-sexualized by society. Strangely there is nothing sexual about the model’s clothing nor her facial expression, although she is half naked, seems as the shoulder strap has been ripped off, her hand seems to violently hide her breast. And one thought lead to another I found myself thinking about this particular Hussein Chalayan runway show, which I remember, really did make an impression on me. I live in a country where the majority of the poeple are muslim, this doesn’t mean that every women is covered from head-to-toe with a black sheet, but I did understand the message behind this performance. I probably understood it better than most europeans as they don’t live with this issue as much as I do here. That is why I put these two images together, because they both made me think about women’s place in our society, how they are told to behave, how to dress and how they are used. The explosion is for the contrast between the two images, how they can be violent together, and how both ideas seem strongly different but at the end they both evoke the same problem.

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