Comments on: culture seeks its level http://social-creature.com/culture-seeks-its-level culture commentary, consumer insight, marketing strategy Wed, 04 Apr 2012 17:37:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: amy.leblanc http://social-creature.com/culture-seeks-its-level#comment-1224 amy.leblanc Mon, 24 Mar 2008 01:40:32 +0000 http://social-creature.com/culture-seeks-its-level#comment-1224 excellent post. in response to your challenge to find the feather hat aesthetic in popular culture/MSM and how that might have lead to ANTM's decision, i will say that John Galliano, Christian Dior and other couture designers have been on that for at least a couple of seasons (since late 2005 at least), and i have actually seen a lot of this in high-end fashion magazines (and french Vogue etc.), with a very heavy Cirque/ El Circo feel- the fedoras, the airbrushing decorative body paint, the vintage influence, the circus overtone - or even the more obscure (one of my favorite Dior looks here, very similar to what i see a lot of our extremely talented 'underground' designers doing: http://207.58.155.90/~leblanc/images/uploads/dior.jpg) it's hard to say whether Galliano and other couture designers are pulling from the circus/burlesque subcultures or whether it's the other way around, or maybe a loop between the two, and then fashion-mainstream things like ANTM pull from there. as far as a 'mainstream' example of the ANTM-replicated look, check out this promo for the Pussycat Dolls, which is almost exactly the same: http://www.clipov.net/free/oboi/pussycat-dolls1024-2.jpg), i guess my point is that if you're a fashion junkie, i wouldn't have even blinked twice at seeing that ANTM ad because i've seen such things all over fashion media. all good ideas about the feedback loops and remixes of culture; i think we are definitely at a point where it's almost impossible to be 'original', because we are all influenced by something. wait- didn't andy warhol say that in 1975? excellent post.
in response to your challenge to find the feather
hat aesthetic in popular culture/MSM and how that might have lead to ANTM’s decision, i will say that John Galliano, Christian Dior and other couture designers have been on that for at least a couple of seasons (since late 2005 at least), and i have actually seen a lot of this in high-end fashion magazines (and french Vogue etc.), with a very heavy Cirque/ El Circo feel- the fedoras, the airbrushing decorative body paint, the vintage influence, the circus overtone – or even the more obscure (one of my favorite Dior looks here, very similar to what i see a lot of our extremely talented ‘underground’ designers doing:
http://207.58.155.90/~leblanc/images/uploads/dior.jpg)

it’s hard to say whether Galliano and other couture designers are pulling from the circus/burlesque subcultures or whether it’s the other way around, or maybe a loop between the two, and then fashion-mainstream things like ANTM pull from there. as far as a ‘mainstream’ example of the ANTM-replicated look, check out this promo for the Pussycat Dolls, which is almost exactly the same: http://www.clipov.net/free/oboi/pussycat-dolls1024-2.jpg),
i guess my point is that if you’re a fashion junkie, i wouldn’t have even blinked twice at seeing that ANTM ad because i’ve seen such things all over fashion media.

all good ideas about the feedback loops and remixes of culture; i think we are definitely at a point where it’s almost impossible to be ‘original’, because we are all influenced by something. wait- didn’t andy warhol say that in 1975?

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