Brit Awards: Eye Candy and Food For Thought
Post date Fri 20 Feb 2009 8:35 AM
The whole Brit Awards looked like a huge Hollowood complex, too much glitz, glamour, make up, fake eye lashes and extensions. It was a releaf to see model Alice Delall rush to the afterparty like this, bringin some ol dirty british style from the land that gave us the God Mother Vivienne Westwood.
Here is some of the style passing the test more or less
Estelle on stage Ok but surely not more than that
Alesha dixon, ok for suitjacket and silouette, but only compered to the others
Pixie Geldof
Estelle in Dolce Gabbana
What we re gonna do with those two?!!:
Katy Perry - the edgy, crazy chick that kissed a girl and liked it last year... *please do note my irony*
Lady Gaga - the moste commerciall product since preserved porridge
Lady Gaga was reminding me of Li Xiaofengs incredible work, but that doesn't mean I liked this.
Or I do - in a way, I rather see this freaky shit than same ol, same ol. But both Katy Perry and Lady Gaga are commercial to the bone, they re not trying to push things forward - they trying to get that attention, paper and stardom (see my comment on Beyonce vs Gareth Pugh). We see them in incredible avantgarde design and they expose those to the big audiance which is good in a way (ARTis for evrybody, not a small elit audience; Decida Style is about Hi to LO and back again - you know it!!!) but is at the same time exploiting it for own profit, Im not saying they shouldn't wear Gareth Pugh etc,
Im just saying be aware of what/who is pushing boundaries and who/what's not.
It's not that i think I m writing about something new here, it's the ol story of art vs consumption/commercialism.
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COMMENTS:
Mon 22 Jun 2009 9:59 AM
Decida
http://decidastyle.blogspot.com/2009/05/was-i-to-hard-on-her.html
Sat 20 Jun 2009 7:00 PM
RMB
No one can doubt Lady GaGa's originailty or the impact she has when she walks into a room, for sure. Personally I think she's a lot less trite than a lot of celebrities. Her music also reflects this.
Fri 8 May 2009 9:31 PM
Decida
You def got a point there, maybe that's it - the clothes aren't spot on. I who have a major interest in both fashion AND music just wish some designers would be as concious about other art as they are in their own genre and then also would choose interesting artists, I mean I rather see JPG designing for Andre 3000 or somebody, not just the biggest star at the moment!
Thu 23 Apr 2009 7:37 AM
M
Eh, I can't stand Lady Gaga. Even if pop artists aren't the ones pushing boundaries, at least Beyonce looks good in Gareth Pugh and Thierry Mugler. I think it's great when pop stars collaborate with designers, like Gaultier designing for Kylie's tour or Mugler for Beyonce. Lady Gaga's style always bothered me (her music blows too) and I couldn't quite figure out what it was until I saw her wearing something that looked like a Mugler dress I had seen before, but it just looked really off and did not look well designed. Then I heard in an interview that she designs all her own clothes for the show and they are heavily inspired by and sometimes near exact copies of the work of designers like Thierry Mugler and Hussein Chalayan. I definitely prefer seeing artists wearing well made clothes and giving credit to designers that I like instead of making their own shitty knockoffs because they think they know something about fashion.
Tue 24 Feb 2009 9:32 AM
Decida
Lady Gaga is naming her album "The Fame", gotta give her that-no hypocrisy here
Sat 21 Feb 2009 9:10 PM
Anonymous
hear you
Fri 20 Feb 2009 5:09 PM
Decida
Please do comment, I would appreciate, or do it if you like those type of posts not just the eye candy...
