Fashion Don’ts That Make The Manolo Crazy
Manolo says, from the Vivienne Westwood comes the trio of Fashion Don’ts That Make The Manolo Crazy.
Moobs.
Fascist Chic.
Nazi in the Net.
And here, please allow the Manolo to say the few words about the “transgressive” fashion.
The few words, they are “played out”.
The Manolo he is simply bored with the entire attempt to shock him with the “transgressive” fashion.
Trust the Manolo if the major bending-of-the-gender motion picture starring the James Garner and the Julie Andrews was made in the 1982, no one in the 2006 is going to be shocked by the image of the lady breasts on the man’s shirt. Instead, it is the opposite. Instead if you insist on parading such the item on your runway, most people they will just assume that you are not very bright.
Likewise, thanks to the overuse by “artists”, the material trappings of the mass murdering Nazis they no longer provide the uncomfortable frisson they once did. And now their appearance on the runway can be rightly viewed as yet the thousandth attempt to elicit the cheap reaction, and thus we are forced to conclude that your work it is the product of the shallow and immature mind.
So the number one fashion don’t that makes the manolo crazy, it is the transgressive that no longer transgresses.
January 16th, 2006 at 6:46 pm
Hmmmm, not all German felt is equally attractive to the desertwind.
Did you notice Viv’s horns?
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/060115/ids_photos_en/r46399471.jpg
January 16th, 2006 at 7:07 pm
I don’t know much about Vivienne’s career since 1977, but I do know that she designed that “breasts” shirt in 76 or so, when it became a minor icon of the punk movement (worn regularly by at least one Sex Pistol). Don’t know if you were aware.
Use of own design from 30 years ago, back when it was actually mildly shocking, has got to be a sign of desperation– whether intended as some sort of “irony” or no.
That woman bothers me. She’s got some sort of talent, but like Madonna, she’s done so much to make the transgressive mainstream (and thus a whole lot less entertaining for everybody), and is now apparently still plowing that same tired furrow.
January 16th, 2006 at 7:58 pm
OK, bad fashion indeed. But Boy #1 is SMOKIN’
January 16th, 2006 at 8:03 pm
Bravo, Manolo!
January 16th, 2006 at 8:45 pm
Even if It’s Fake, Don’t Fake It
Question: The fab new handbag you’re about to buy for Spring 2006 is __________.Answer: (a) true (b) fauxAnswer Key: Actually, it’s up to you. …
January 16th, 2006 at 9:34 pm
Manolo–don’t you have anything to say about Hasselhoff’s divorce?
January 16th, 2006 at 10:51 pm
Why, why, why…
must I endure things like this. Must my eyes be insulted by cheap artschool garbage? This is the fashion equivalent of the dyed-black, spiky haired, art school creep who is so sure his/her work is of “importance and social relevance.” But really it’s just crap. If it looks like crap and smells like crap……you know the rest.
January 17th, 2006 at 3:14 am
Vivienne is one of my favourite designers, i love her things and i wear them regularly. She doesn’t always design such silly things, believe me!!
January 17th, 2006 at 3:33 am
Art + Felt = Joseph Beuys
Joseph Beuys > Vivienne Westwood
January 17th, 2006 at 4:15 am
The Moobs, help us please! The only possible reason for the travesty that is the Moobs is maybe - and it is the big, big maybe - it is of use for the person born with the genitalia of the man who is in the first stages of the pre-operation of the change of the gender. Safer than the hormones, to be sure, but far less super-fantastic.
January 17th, 2006 at 7:18 am
That fellow looks ridiculous.
January 17th, 2006 at 8:43 am
but the manolo, what will the prince harry wear without the nazi couture lines?
January 17th, 2006 at 9:23 am
a gift to The Manolo…
http://www.republicoft.com/index.php/archives/2006/01/14/ooga-chaka/
Don’t Hassle The Hoff!
January 17th, 2006 at 7:14 pm
Victor/Victoria is one of my most favorite guilty-pleasure movies. I mourn Julie Andrews’ vocal chords.
January 18th, 2006 at 12:31 am
Holy freaking crap Dimestore Lipstick, that is AMAZING. I never knew such things existed.
Vivienne Westwood needs to just STOP. This is so very very wrong. I have no words.
January 18th, 2006 at 8:51 am
bellenoelle said it all
January 20th, 2006 at 4:19 pm
And the punks who frequented her Westwood’s shop, SEX, regularly wore Nazi stuff, like Siouxsie Sioux wearing a Nazi armband, while topless. Why does she feel to need to bring it back???
March 21st, 2006 at 4:12 am
Vivienne Westwood has some brilliant designs, so shut ya mouth