Spontaneous Fashion

Saturday evening I went to a local fashion show that was put on by four Berkeley stores, combining vintage and new clothes, including my favorite, remix/recycled clothes - the art of taking old clothes and hacking them to make something modern and cute and different. A really bland GAP sweater in mint green got the next cut out and then a cute soft fuzzy white collar was knitted and affixed, for example. I wish I'd taken photos but alas, I forgot my camera.

But something occurred to me as we were sitting there watching the show - most fashion shows are so orchestrated, so designed. Hair and make-up are in place, the clothes have been picked, the models all walk a certain way. Well, not in this fashion show so much - the models, many of whom were amateurs, had a lot of fun on the catwalk, improvising moves and smiling and interacting with the audience. I thought it was charming, but I wanted it to go even further...what if you could have a spontaneous fashion show? What would that look like? Like a mix of Project Runway and So You Think You Can Dance, maybe.

Project Runway is sort of the Iron Chef of apparel design: the contestants get a theme, or some kind of limitation, and they have a short time to produce an outfit. I'd make it a little looser - it would be more about styling, not designing. So you'd have a big rack of items to choose from, and your job would be to dress the model in, say, two minutes, give her a "motivation" or a story to act out, and send her out on the catwalk.

Better yet, pick out things for yourself and walk down the catwalk! If you are really crafty, you would whip up on-the-spot alterations to items. Spontaneous fashion! Could be fun.

Comments

[ArC]

So it'd be a bit like "Fruits" (the book / magazine) as a competition? That'd be cool.

[Me]

Hi Jane- Reading this post really makes miss your writing and your blog. Mine is still going strong, thanks to your initial help.

~Liz

[kuwang]

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