Pac-Man as high fashion
Designer Giles Deacon took his Pac-Man-inspired fashion to the runway in Milan last month. Seriously. Brownlee has more over at Boing Boing Couture. Pac-Man fashion
Designer Giles Deacon took his Pac-Man-inspired fashion to the runway in Milan last month. Seriously. Brownlee has more over at Boing Boing Couture. Pac-Man fashion
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A true sign Western culture is in decline.
Are those power pellets on the runway?
Who actually BUYS these wacky, bizarre "fashion" statements we've seen many times before? No doubt, they are as expensive as they are circusy and non-functional, but who does this stuff appeal to? Someone must be buying these embarrassments or the designers wouldn't feel compelled to keeping shitting it out. I imagine old, filthy rich women with money to burn buying these things in a desperate attempt to look chic and cutting edge and perhaps to draw attention away from their sags and wrinkles. I don't blame the model for looking so stoic. I see homemade stuff at Burning Man that's way more fun and a lot less snobby.
My mother has always been the leave-the-TV-on-all-day sort of person and I remember often laughing at the wacky, pretty much unwearable clothing that I'd sometimes see on the "Style" segments on CNN when I was a kid -- funky space vampire/hoopskirt/robot/zombie inspired stuff that I'd always assumed was for some kind of demonstration of the artist's talent or craziness or something.
I'd always assumed that the really weird stuff was never intended to actually be produced as clothing you could buy. Is that not true? In this case I think the headgear is just a gimmick and the outfits themselves are intended to be serious, but maybe there really is someone out there who wants to wear a pacman head to her next dinner party...
So, where are the ghost monster costumes?
NICODEMUSLEGEND@5, did you follow the link?
First, I have to say - Put some meat on them bones! Not much to say about the "Pac-Man-inspired fashion," because its at best, silly. I'm thinking more on the ugly side of silly- though I doubt it was meant to be taken seriously. The models could've at least wore a sheer top - then we could ignore the pac-man head.
NicodemusLegend - they're working on the ghosts - just one more week without eating.
The really outrageous, unwearable stuff isn't actually meant to be worn/bought, except by the fringe artistes of the fashion crowd. Many, in fact, are not produced beyond the single version shown in the runway events. They serve the same purpose as crazy-ass automotive concept cars - they're a way for the designer to go all out with his or her creative muse, with no expectation of return on those. They sell the more normal stuff in their line for actual clothign.
This is pure artistic fancy, the designer having fun and being subsidized to some degree by the sales line. Which is cool, and fun, even if not wearable. Then again, neither is all that art that shows up in the NYT art section. 'Tis simply art, to be looked at and enjoyed.
Fashion shows are great. The best one that I ever attended had shirtless, kilted muscle-punks swilling beer and spit-spraying it all over the audience while the models graced the catwalk. If you go to a fashion show looking for wearable clothes, well, you're clueless. They're performance art and frequently very entertaining.
/me dresses up in big white dot costume
Just look at the expression on that model's face. She looks pissed.
As in, what-the-hell-happened-to-my-career kinda pissed.
b.
@12 ... trying ... to ... not ... fall ... over ...
All she needed was some chewing gum...Ack, ack ack ack, Ack Ack ACK!!
that woman looks way underfed.
As though the Pac-Head will topple her and she would not even be able to lift her head off the floor.
I'd get the performance art angle if it didn't cost so much money and be taken so seriously by the elite fashionistas. The way the people who "beautify" the models are treated subhumanly and the way that the vacuous bulimics are cultivated is nothing like 100% of the many performance art events I have attended. It is a whole different attitude.
The contrast between the skeletal model and a computer character based on eating is ironic at best. I wonder if she made the wa-um wa-um sound as she walked...
The way the people who "beautify" the models are treated subhumanly
A friend of mine gets, as he puts it, "$1,500 for a blow dry". Although he did mention that the models keel over from hunger occasionally.
Surprised that her neck muscles had enough sustenance to hold up that headwear.
Seriously....kind of fucked up concentration camp skinny there am I wrong?
Not as edgewise as one would be led to believe
http://www.thinkgeek.com/apparel/hoodies/aaad/
Wait, didn't Pacman spend the entire time eating?
See where I'm struggling here?
Okay this "Postmodernism" thing was cute now it's just sad. What's next, the serious interpretation "Derelicte" fashion right out of Zoolander?
After ingesting pills, trying to evade and even chase ghosts, the results are here.
Give me Queen Latifah over that model anyday
I assumed that was to keep her from licking or chewing on her injury.
The thought of Brownlee doing BoingBoing Couture is the best thing in this item. I want that as a regular feature.
That's no powerpill PacMan ate there. Waca Waca
My first thought was:
this is an outfit for Westerners travelling to Islam states. It's displayed in Euro mode, but when you reach Iran, slap that mother shut so you won't pervert the men. One-eyed model also available.
Reminds me of these guys...
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=3SAbJjktk7E
The "fashion" is silly, and the model is unhealthily thin. Please, can someone feed that woman?