Fashionably creative
I have to admit that I was always a bit dismissive when I met people at art school who said they wanted to get into fashion. It was probably the art snob in me who felt that fashion somehow wasn’t as worthy a career choice as wanting to be an artist, a sculptor or a writer. I mean, what’s so creative about mass producing jogging bottoms in casual fabrics? That’s probably what most people who work in the fashion industry will end up doing; as in most careers, it’s only a tiny percentage who make it to the very top, to the catwalk shows and high-end fashion magazines.
Every now and then I come across a designer or a collection that makes me think again about whether fashion really is art or not. We’ve all seen photos of stick thin models on the catwalks of Paris or Milan wearing outfits that wouldn’t look out of place in a modern art museum! I saw some pictures of Felicity Brown’s show at the recent London Fashion week, where she had been relegated to some tiny venue, yet the clothes she creates absolutely blew me away. Of course, I’d never wear them – and I don’t just mean that I can’t afford them – but that doesn’t mean that I can’t appreciate and admire her creativity.
And boy, is she creative! She specialises in floaty-looking cocktail dresses, with layers and layers of coloured fabrics that swish and sway as you walk. They hang flat if the model is standing still, but if she feels the need to dance or jump around (not normal model behaviour, I know) then these layers of fabric create amazing, futuristic shapes which you could imagine seeing at Tate Modern, rather than in some fancy West End wine bar.
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