This is the only thing I could have ever seen myself writing about and you stole the words right out of my mouth, nice. The UK definitely doesn't get enough credit for fashion despite so much of it coming from us, because we have so many more cultural exports on peoples minds unlike say Italy, whose national image may as well be "ruins, coffee, and trousers that are too short".
Definitely think that other certain cultures don't really "get" fashion as anything more than vague status symbols, because they lack the exposure of all sorts of subcultures we take for granted (mods, punks, skinheads, ska revival, new romantics, teddy boys, the list goes on) and for whatever reason their culture never thought to invent their own (there are no polite ways to say which or why). You'd think as well some of these would rub off on them, you can't go to Brighton without having some of this crammed down your throat but, well I guess a lot of these people prefer Bradford and never interact with anything outside of it.
I think these third worlders getting into fashion has made it ironically less progressive and limited what these brands can really do. Just a few years ago Balenciaga had some clothes with pride flag motifs revealed (don't think they've done it again) and the backlash from thirdies was immense, as if it had never struck these people from Azerbaijan or wherever that the fashion industry might contain gay people in it, because to them "fashion" is when you spend your deliveroo bonus on a t-shirt that just says "Versace" in block letters. And that was just from some virtue signalling flags so god help a brand if they wanted to sell any of the bondage gear Westwood/Mclaren did.
I've found the way actual fashion is online now, is that people have to get into nicher and nicher brands from the US/UK/Japan/Sweden all while not saying the quiet part out loud and I've often seen anyone who does gets ostracised for it, even though everything you say is spot on. Japanese fashion in particular does actually recognise and respect the traditional aspect of it too, even for our own fashion probably more than we do which is funny.
P.s. as you described it as an uncancellable industry and diet prada, another good example would be Gosha Rubchinskiy, a Russian designer (doverstreetmarket protégé) who was "cancelled" for asking to see a prospective models non-nude body when casting online, who then didn't get the job and attempted to cancel him (w/ diet prada helping). None of the cancellers saw any issue with a minor lying about their age, or trying to "out" GR as gay when he lives in Russia (not sure if he actually is). If there were other motives that aren't "he didn't give me a job and is Russian" who knows but he thankfully didn't end up cancelled, and still runs a hugely successful brand and recently collabbed with Kanye, much to the chagrin of a certain fashion-blog turned Palestine-campaigner.
P.p.s Yes we should ban tracksuits, and bring back the ban on hoodies in bluewater.
The Galliano rant is even funnier because it turns out the people he was addressing were not even jews - they were actually (presumably southern) Italians
finally someone recognises the hard work it entails, being a model is basically being an activist for good taste.
This is the only thing I could have ever seen myself writing about and you stole the words right out of my mouth, nice. The UK definitely doesn't get enough credit for fashion despite so much of it coming from us, because we have so many more cultural exports on peoples minds unlike say Italy, whose national image may as well be "ruins, coffee, and trousers that are too short".
Definitely think that other certain cultures don't really "get" fashion as anything more than vague status symbols, because they lack the exposure of all sorts of subcultures we take for granted (mods, punks, skinheads, ska revival, new romantics, teddy boys, the list goes on) and for whatever reason their culture never thought to invent their own (there are no polite ways to say which or why). You'd think as well some of these would rub off on them, you can't go to Brighton without having some of this crammed down your throat but, well I guess a lot of these people prefer Bradford and never interact with anything outside of it.
I think these third worlders getting into fashion has made it ironically less progressive and limited what these brands can really do. Just a few years ago Balenciaga had some clothes with pride flag motifs revealed (don't think they've done it again) and the backlash from thirdies was immense, as if it had never struck these people from Azerbaijan or wherever that the fashion industry might contain gay people in it, because to them "fashion" is when you spend your deliveroo bonus on a t-shirt that just says "Versace" in block letters. And that was just from some virtue signalling flags so god help a brand if they wanted to sell any of the bondage gear Westwood/Mclaren did.
I've found the way actual fashion is online now, is that people have to get into nicher and nicher brands from the US/UK/Japan/Sweden all while not saying the quiet part out loud and I've often seen anyone who does gets ostracised for it, even though everything you say is spot on. Japanese fashion in particular does actually recognise and respect the traditional aspect of it too, even for our own fashion probably more than we do which is funny.
P.s. as you described it as an uncancellable industry and diet prada, another good example would be Gosha Rubchinskiy, a Russian designer (doverstreetmarket protégé) who was "cancelled" for asking to see a prospective models non-nude body when casting online, who then didn't get the job and attempted to cancel him (w/ diet prada helping). None of the cancellers saw any issue with a minor lying about their age, or trying to "out" GR as gay when he lives in Russia (not sure if he actually is). If there were other motives that aren't "he didn't give me a job and is Russian" who knows but he thankfully didn't end up cancelled, and still runs a hugely successful brand and recently collabbed with Kanye, much to the chagrin of a certain fashion-blog turned Palestine-campaigner.
P.p.s Yes we should ban tracksuits, and bring back the ban on hoodies in bluewater.
The Galliano rant is even funnier because it turns out the people he was addressing were not even jews - they were actually (presumably southern) Italians