I thought it would be fun to start featuring beads in fashion and we shall begin with fall. As many of you know fashion shows for fall took place in spring 2009 and currently the fashion industry is showcasing their spring/summer collections all over the world so it was a bit challenging to find photos for the fall attire.
Fall is one of my favorite seasons… I like them all but I kinda get tired of winter pretty soon with all the snow and all. But fall is so easy going… sometimes you get warm days in which you can still wear t-shirts and shorts and sometimes you get cool days, not cold enough for a coat but cold enough to be stylish.
I am not a big trend follower nor do I have the money to purchase any Haute Couture outfits. But I do look at fashion for inspiration. How can you tell me this is not a piece of art:
I don’t know if it even comes in my size but I would love to have the guts to wear that! By the way that’s Alexander McQueen’s little beauty and yes it is from the fall 2009 collection.
On the other hand, for something more wearable but still fun. I loved Anna Sui’s collection. A lot of it was 30’s inspired style with a touch of boho or a lot of boho with a touch of flappers.
I love the beads they used in the necklace. I think we’ll start to see a lot more weaving and intricate patterns with seed beads accompanied by smaller gemstone beads this year.
Another outfit that I also liked by Anna Sui.
But I also saw a lot of this:
This is Phillip Lim using a sort of flowery print with a bold necklace.
There is something for everybody in fashion and sometimes there is absolutely nothing! I think it is important for a person to choose what they wear but it’s even more important for a woman. Don’t get me wrong I am not saying we have to always look nice, wear high heels and sleep with make up on, no I am saying you have to dress for yourself you have to find a way to express your creativity through accessories. And while the necklace might make the dress, the dress doesn’t make the woman. But I think most of you reading this blog have already found yourselves and your ways of not buying an image media wants to sell us and I would like to make this blog a bit deeper than bead working. I could go on and on with feminist rants but I’d like to hear your opinions on what fashion means to you and where you’d like this blog to go.
Comment by Amanda — September 23, 2009 @ 1:36 pm
That first outfit is outrageous! I love stuff like that – it is fun, artful and expressive. But the fashion world has a lot of negative aspects too: it is big business, it is designed and driven by men as a way to control women, it is based on self-loathing and insecurities (what is “in” and what’s not). In a way beading is a way of reclaiming fashion for women, we create what we want because it makes us happy and wear it because it is a unique expression of ourselves.
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