How will YOU classify Fall '05 fashions in 2050??

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How will YOU classify Fall \'05 fashions in 2050??

Through another discussion group I discoverd a fabulous fun e-magazine today: Fashionlines.com. What fun reading!

In strolling through the May issue I went all through the Fall '05 coutour runway show. Yikes!!!!! And immediately my brain went:

OK.... in 2050, how are vintage clothing enthusiasts going to classify the fashions of the early 2000s?

Take a stroll: Fall '05 Runway Show

I'm afraid I would have to say ........ :BAGUSE:

Perhaps the younger set here has some other ideas... :)
 
I got fruits magazine from Japan and I must say - I have a hard time describing it! Anything and everything, too big, too small, boots...

Deb
 
I think we really won't know for a couple years about 2005. maybe even only 2 to 5. As I look at, the things that really emulate an era are what actually "caught on" with the buying public. Some things that hit the runway are big hits and trickle down into varying interpretations, but there are things that just don't catch on with anybody no matter how much cash you have. Of course there are things that were "before their time" and don't really catch on but catch on years later, but for the most part when costumers want to recreate and get a flavor of an era past, they turn to what actually caught on with people.

Deb...what is the difference between "fruits" and cosplay? I know cosplay/kosupree (sp?) is very costumey for lack of a better term but wasn't really certain about the relationship.
 
Cosplay is short for "costume play" isn't it? That's my understanding, anyway. So you see a lot of recreation of other characters.. from snow white to anime girls.

Fruits.. at least what I've seen... is way more outlandish & off the wall.
 
Thanks for that link Barbara, I really enjoyed the viewing!

If there was a single thread that ran through many of the collections, I would call it Escapee from Les Miserables Production. There are a lot of wispy, tattery, dark items, paired with takes on antique styles.

runwayParisFall05Girbaud7.jpg


runwayParisFall05Girbaud4.jpg


runwayParisFall05Kenzo5.jpg


runwayParisFall05Gaultier3.jpg


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There are some other very antique inspirations, such as, what Elizabethan men's jackets?:

http://www.fashionlines.com/2005/may/runwayParisFall05Gn.php

As well as many, many 20th century vintage inspirations:

http://www.fashionlines.com/2005/may/runwayParisFall05Dinnigan.php
http://www.fashionlines.com/2005/may/runwayParisFall05Leonard.php

Then there are the clean, truly classic designs of a few:

http://www.fashionlines.com/2005/may/runwayParisFall05Ungaro.php
http://www.fashionlines.com/2005/may/runwayParisFall05Lanvin.php

Personally, I'd wear <i>these</i> two anytime...well, not ANY time, you know what I mean:

runwayParisFall05Scherrer5.jpg


runwayParisFall05Shimada4.jpg
 
I would call it Escapee from Les Miserables

Great description Maggie!

Here's a coupla scans from Fruits:


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I shall remember Spring /Summer 2005 as the time I did not spend my husband's salary buying designer clothes. I loathe the Boho look and I miss Tom Ford at YSL. Honestly I have hardly seen a thing that I like. Although that Ungaro is lovely.
Louise
 
Can anyone ever tell what the normal folk will be wearing from those runway shows? (scary women)
Gads...what normal gal would walk around in a translucent shirt? I think she'd be asking for trouble wearing that on the subway.

I was seeing a lot of flowing organza, great for the red carpet, but it would get caught in my seatbelt too much for my tastes. Imagine that whipping around when it's caught in the car door! Bwahhhahhhaa

Jenn
 
In Fruits there are a lot of boots and a lot of big 1980's glasses. It is hard to sum it up though isn't it?!

Deb
 
no.

I can sum it up for ya, deb.

<B>oi vey.</B>

Now - I wanna know the same thing as Jenn...what's the pret a porter take gonna be on this stuff, ya think? I like the les miserables reference. that pretty much says it all. But those girls in fruits..? What the hell is she wearing? - a doll crinoline stuck in her belt??? I thought I was the humour in dress type - but even that's a bit over the top for me! ROFLMAO
 
I know a very smart, creative 13-year old girl named Emily who is nuts for fruits :) and I sat down and went through every page of the book called Fruits (based on the mag) while she explained what she sees in every one of the outfits. I was so down on it at first sight, and yet her enthusiasm intrigued me.

Instead of me saying what Emily said, I think I will ask her to summarize what the look is all about. It will probably take awhile, but look for a Fruits thread sometime this summer!
 
ohhh I got it now.......:o

just get out my grandmother's scissors......shred everything I own and glue it together and

wha la! I'm in!!!!!

:booze:

Couple more and I'll have to find one of those Fruits magazines! Yee Gads.....it is hard to comprehend. Where is the "look"???

thank God for vintage! :)
 
Ha ha! My husband said the magazine looked like a bunch of little girls playing dressup, and it does. The entire magazine is pictures. Notice the people in the background are dressed normally!

Maybe some day that will BE the look!

Deb
 
Well, Fruits has been an undercurrent for some time, and the important context <i>is</i> the conservatism of traditional Japanese work-wear (and lifestyle) with the contrasting fun 'dress-up' display. I've got that book and it's a great survey - a surprising number of outfits are: thing found in attic + home made + Vivienne Westwood or similar.

Marc Jacobs is at least one designer who's already borrowed from Fruits/Lolita (predictably enough), so it may just carry on rumbling away, and feeding through.

I'd be really interested to hear what Emily says!
 
Yes, fruits is sort of a backwards thing. started among the people and inspired designers versus the other way around. I think its great because folks are just expressing themselves and not really caring what Paris thinks.

As far as the stuff on the runways, we really won't know until the ready to wear lines come out. and it is all about what shop buyers decide to buy too. I have seen frayed edge blazers in TJ Maxx.

The items you posted above Maggie makes me think that all the peasant skirts and gunne sax will farther shift away from the rennfair look and into the 19th century scullery wench look it appears. The looks also remind me of all those stories....colonial lady Deborah Sampson who fought in the revolutionary war, and few different Shakespeare plays, etc, about ladies who dressed up like young men to avoid detection but aren't doing it very well.
 
It was interesting when America's Next Top Model was in Japan that time, and the girls had to come up with a streetwear outfit for themselves.

Deb
 
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