I looked through facehunter for awhile (very interesting, by the way), and the main thing that struck me (combined with reading the new InStyle yesterday) is that lately street fashion is more about what clothes that are wearing you than what clothes you are wearing.
I liked the girl you posted best because she looked like she was wearing her clothes, rather than the other way around, and there are only a couple of other people the same way on the site. The people on there weren't really LOOK AT ME, they were LOOK AT MY CLOTHES; letting their clothing choices speak for their personalities.
yeah i know what you mean. i always wonder about the context of these folks, if they were walking in a group of people who are dressed just like them and facehunter dude just picked one to photograph?
i think the site is about celebrating that people are wearing these things as art projects, as experiments in clothing. i like to think of them as professional artists, who intentionally wear the clothes because they are actively conscious of the current fashion scene and what is seen as interesting. this is contrasted with folks like me "unprofessional artists" who dabble away when i feel like it (for my own enjoyment) and semi-consciously want to reference something that is currently interesting in fashion.
so i guess the facehunter people are detaching fashion from their personalities, making it a separate art. which is interesting also.
I looked through facehunter for awhile (very interesting, by the way), and the main thing that struck me (combined with reading the new InStyle yesterday) is that lately street fashion is more about what clothes that are wearing you than what clothes you are wearing.
ReplyDeleteI liked the girl you posted best because she looked like she was wearing her clothes, rather than the other way around, and there are only a couple of other people the same way on the site. The people on there weren't really LOOK AT ME, they were LOOK AT MY CLOTHES; letting their clothing choices speak for their personalities.
Which weirds me out.
yeah i know what you mean. i always wonder about the context of these folks, if they were walking in a group of people who are dressed just like them and facehunter dude just picked one to photograph?
ReplyDeletei think the site is about celebrating that people are wearing these things as art projects, as experiments in clothing. i like to think of them as professional artists, who intentionally wear the clothes because they are actively conscious of the current fashion scene and what is seen as interesting. this is contrasted with folks like me "unprofessional artists" who dabble away when i feel like it (for my own enjoyment) and semi-consciously want to reference something that is currently interesting in fashion.
so i guess the facehunter people are detaching fashion from their personalities, making it a separate art. which is interesting also.