Meaning?
During a protest in Brazil, an officer pleaded "Do not create episodes, please, not on my birthday." A little while after, the protesters surprised him with a birthday cake!
A little girl, held by an American soldier, after getting separated from her family during the Iraq war.
A man plays the piano to the Ukrainian police to further communicate the protester's message of peace.
Civilians in Iran save and protect a wounded police officer after he was beaten by violent protesters.
The Norwegian artist Edvard Munch s painting The Scream was painted in 1893 during a unique transitional period in art history. The Scream was painted after the end of the photographic Realist era, when artists wanted to show off their technical skills. The Scream was also painted right before the Expressionists and other artists of the early twentieth century made it a trend to put a focus on the expression of their inner feelings and emotions through their art rather than displaying how realistically they could paint an image or object.
In his diaries, the artist Edvard Munch admits that he struggled with insanity not only on a personal level during his life, but also through his family. In fact, his sister was hospitalized for insanity at the time The Scream was painted in 1893. If given a thorough enough analysis, the personal lives of most artists are not perfect portraits of happiness. What makes Edvard Munch a different kind of artist is that he shows us an honest, even ugly, glimpse of his inner troubles and feelings of anxiety through his painting The Scream, putting more importance on personal meaning than on technical skill or beauty, a traditional goal of art.
Creepy yet powerful sculpture in Berlin by Isaac Cordal depicts politicians discussing global warming.
When considering the fashion industries involvement in ethical endeavors such as environmentalism, one must also keep in mind that the primary motivation is profits and the success of the fashion industry as a whole. As Katharine Hamnet said during an interview in 2013, You might think people would buy clothes out of pity, but they won t. People buy clothes because they want to be excited about themselves You ve got to put the fashion first
A Gothic Mind People find my things sometimes aggressive. But I don t see it as aggressive. I see it as romantic, dealing with a dark side of personality. - Alexander McQueen One of the defining features of Alexander McQueen s collections was their historicism. While McQueen s historical references were farreaching, he was particularly inspired by the nineteenth century, drawing especially on the Victorian Gothic. There s something kind of Edgar Allan Poe, he once observed, kind of deep and kind of melancholic about my collections. http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/exhibitions/exhibitionalexander-mcqueen-savage-beauty/about-the-exhibition/
GRID REFERENCE: KANE PUTS VECTORISM ON THE FASHION MAP Kane is known for being inspired by STEM subjects in his collections and, while this season s offering was influenced by a range of ideas, LS:N Global saw a nod to Vectorism in Kane s later looks. In the designs that used organza, the material was artfully arranged to take on the appearance of grid and vector lines. https://www.lsnglobal.com/seed/article/15254/grid-reference-kaneputs-vectorism-on-the-fashion-map
Haute Couture
Perfection
Edward Enninful on working with Kate Moss and race in the fashion industryenninful is one of the British fashion s great success stories, emerging in the golden age of London street-style titles. Enninful has been responsible for some of the most arresting editorial and advertising imagery of his era, tackling industry taboos including racism and plastic surgery head on, working with the giants of photography and enjoying productive tenure at the two blockbuster Vogues Italia under editor Franca Sozzani, US under Anna Wintour. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/fashion/people/edwa rd-enninful-on-working-with-kate-moss-and-racein-the-fashio/
. Model Overhaul - Alexander McQueen is known for using controversial means of delivering his clothing. In 1998 he sent double amputee Aimee Mullins, a former Paralympian strutting down the catwalk in a pair of hand-carved wooden prosthetic legs. It s funny to think that the standard catwalk models 10 years on were refusing to wear his Armadillo heels in case they broke their necks. http://dainarentonlcf.tumblr.com/page/5
Nick Knight
Photographer and designer Nick Knight produced an iconic editorial for McQueen s guest edited issue of Dazed & Confused magazine titled Fashion-Able (1998). Unprecedented within the realm of fashion, the project featured a number of disabled models in order to challenge ideas of what can be considered beautiful.
Starting this month, no one is allowed to cover their faces in public places in France. French politicians have justified this new law by referring to the burqa and framing it as a religious symbol of female repression contrary to French beliefs in secularism and gender equality. As the garment itself poses no tangible harm, the point of contention has rested on its link to these French principles. Fashion, which continuously negotiates the meaning of clothes, thus becomes especially relevant. Vogue Paris featured the burqa in a Arabian-style shoot, mixing it with varied styles and conspicuous sexuality.