Saturday, September 08, 2007
A brief history of the fashion show
Slate Magazine: "Fashion scholars have penned histories of the high heel, the corset, and the little black dress, but no one has yet written a definitive history of the fashion show. The omission is curious: The fashion show is not only the promotional linchpin of a multibillion-dollar industry, it was also central to the development of the American department store—and thus to the rise of American consumer culture."
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I would love to read a complete history of the fashion show. Its really surprising how much fashion effects or is affected by the world around it and I think a detailed history would really show that it can be more than just looking pretty. Also very interesting how not only fashion but the fashion show varies from culture to culture.
A History of the Fashion show would be really wonderful. We have entire libraries full of the history of other types of performing art, but I don't think the average artist knows all that much about the history of fashion shows. I've always thought it would be very interesting to work at one, and it would definitly be cool to learn about the inner workings of how that world works, and what they consider art versus what we consider art.
Some aspects of soceity are really never given any thought as to how it came to be. As with fashion shows the history of it is important in how it developed to be how it is today. We all hear that saying that in order to know of the present you have to know the past. As with theatre it's important not only to know why the way it is, but also because that's what the industry is based on. Not only paving new ways but portraying life as it is and was.
History of the fashion show... i feel like it is a kind of a forgotten art-form. i have always had an interest in it but i feel like people often overlook the intricacies of how it all got started. it would be really interesting to date it back and compare it within cultures because each has their own flare and specific regimen.
I find it very interesting how fashion trends can look towards the past very easily, but it sounds like fashion shows never look back to bring in older elements. I've always wondered about the process of putting on a major fashion show, and how similar/different it is compared to theatre. I think a written book on the history of fashion shows would be a fascinating read.
It's always surprising to see the fashion show and feel how theatrical it is. There is the beginning, the climax and the endings that go perfectly well with the song. The lighting is also a big portion of the show. For many years, I feel like people have been associating fashion with useless extravagance, but it is just another form of art and theater, which ironically are also associated with those things.
like everyone writing here I agree with them in thinking it would be quite a useful and interesting thing to us as theatre artists however, what i think would be particularly interesting is learning how the model and the production values of a fashion show has changed through time...
When I read this the first think I thought of were the scenes in old movies like "Singing In The Rain" and "Easter Parade" where people would shop by having different models come out of the dressing room in different outfits and just stand around like live manikins until the shopper picked one. Actually now that I think about it in those movies the shopping scenes were always songs. Definitely an undocumented art form.
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