A clip that looks at fashion designers from the 1930s predicting the look of "Eve" in the year 2,000. Notice the difference between the female and male futuristic attire.
"Ooh Swish!" They're so funny, those old school narrators! Love it. And the music :)
The second design was hilarious. Transparent net to "probably catch the males" haha. Actually their wedding dress design was a spot on design of the 80s... Thank goodness their predictions were all false. And if men looked like that last guy... (candy for cuties? Really? Sounds a bit paedophilic if you ask me)
Fashion is determined by people like Anna Wintour - not science, unfortunately. So fashion isn't really about comfort, reason or forward thinking, but style. And as we all know, retro and vintage is always in somehow so we're not really moving forward. But that "new" T-qualizer shirt is pretty futuristic if you ask me!
Futuristic thinking has been going on for ages. They're usually ridiculous or never achieved, but imagine if we lived twice as long as normal? Innovators, inventors and entrepreneurs would've changed the world much faster and may have seen their predictions come true http://encarta.msn.com/sidebar_461576126/the_history_of_predicting_the_future.html
It is interesting that women in 2000 were still meant to look beautiful, get married, etc. yet men were still the ones in charge...of the phone, the money, the candy. Men are judged by what they do, women for how they look.
The futuristic fashions remind me of the fashion designer Thierry Mugler's work. They are highly futuristic and provocative and unlike in the 1930s he aims to empower women "his women are never victims or waifs. They are larger than life fantasy women, supermodels, amazons, goddesses...some times they are men." This quote is from the book "Thierry Mugler: Fashion, fetish, fantasy". This quote also refers to how Mugler uses transvestites as models to highlight femininity. Check out this video on youtube. At the 2 minute 20 seconds mark there is a robotic/cyborg suit that is a famous piece of his. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgx4sAenWg4
"Ooh Swish!" They're so funny, those old school narrators! Love it. And the music :)
ReplyDeleteThe second design was hilarious. Transparent net to "probably catch the males" haha. Actually their wedding dress design was a spot on design of the 80s... Thank goodness their predictions were all false. And if men looked like that last guy... (candy for cuties? Really? Sounds a bit paedophilic if you ask me)
Fashion is determined by people like Anna Wintour - not science, unfortunately. So fashion isn't really about comfort, reason or forward thinking, but style. And as we all know, retro and vintage is always in somehow so we're not really moving forward. But that "new" T-qualizer shirt is pretty futuristic if you ask me!
Futuristic thinking has been going on for ages. They're usually ridiculous or never achieved, but imagine if we lived twice as long as normal? Innovators, inventors and entrepreneurs would've changed the world much faster and may have seen their predictions come true
http://encarta.msn.com/sidebar_461576126/the_history_of_predicting_the_future.html
It is interesting that women in 2000 were still meant to look beautiful, get married, etc. yet men were still the ones in charge...of the phone, the money, the candy. Men are judged by what they do, women for how they look.
ReplyDeleteThe futuristic fashions remind me of the fashion designer Thierry Mugler's work. They are highly futuristic and provocative and unlike in the 1930s he aims to empower women "his women are never victims or waifs. They are larger than life fantasy women, supermodels, amazons, goddesses...some times they are men." This quote is from the book "Thierry Mugler: Fashion, fetish, fantasy". This quote also refers to how Mugler uses transvestites as models to highlight femininity.
ReplyDeleteCheck out this video on youtube. At the 2 minute 20 seconds mark there is a robotic/cyborg suit that is a famous piece of his. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgx4sAenWg4