What We’ll Be Wearing Next Year
So I was on Getty Images looking for some historic photos, when my eye was caught by an actual current event. It is Fashion Week in China, and apparently all the industry-related universities have their own fashion shows at the same time.
The first thing I noticed was all the models shown with gas masks. ( I did a search for “Chinese fashion week gas masks,” and a lot of stories popped up, but all the links I checked had lots of ads and paywalls, so I am reluctant to link to any specific story.) But what I gathered was that with all the air pollution in China, for at least the last two years, breathing masks have been designed as fashion accessories.
There is also a trend of wearing something over your face – a wire structure or a transparent mask with an animé-style face on it. Maybe this is one way around being tagged without your knowledge in pictures posted on the internet?
These next five seem based on a combination of textile craft work and carrying your bed around with you. Not anything I expect to see actually being worn, but they made me smile — especially the third one, which really looks like the designer picked up random craft scraps and combined them into an outfit.
These next three show beautiful craftsmanship, I think, and while I would feel conspicuous dressed in such an outfit, I could certainly adapt some of the details and use them on an outfit I would wear. (Some of these may be from last year.)
There are over 1800 pictures in the Getty Images category Chinese Graduate Fashion Week, some from previous years. Some outfits are bright and cartoonish, some are minimal and sophisticated, and some are classically beautiful. I don’t know anything about the many schools represented in these shows — maybe each university focuses on certain fashion traditions and trends, I don’t know. But I did enjoy seeing things so far outside my usual interests and inspirations, and if you need a little mental break, I would encourage you to go take a look.
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I am loving the use of gas masks in the first runway photo as a criticism to china’s air pollution! The coat in the last photo is also amazing x
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I know! I had no idea the pollution was so bad until I started reading the stories associated with covering that gas mask trend. Just think! It could start a whole new industry, that would require mass production, which probably would be made in China, which would lead to more pollution… But I am amazed at the creativity of someone who thinks of turning a basic necessity into a statement!
Oh my…….the sublime to the ridiculous! Yes, the last ‘coat’ is extraordinary.
Thanks for broadening our horizons!
It was fun for me to see things so out of my ordinary thinking, and I thought some of y’all would like it too. Inspiration lurks around some unexpected corners! 🙂
Here in Ohio the Kent State fashion school always has a show of their students’ work. Some are extremely talented, while others seem to go for the shock value. Those earlier outfits in your post look like the models rolled around on the cutting room floor after being sprayed with glue. And thanks for presenting fashions designed in other countries. I know I too often forget there’s a lot of world out there doing much better stuff.
I just happened on it by chance, but from what I read today, Chinese fashion is gaining a big following all over the world. It certainly was different! I really wonder if those wire face sculptures will ever catch on. It was also interesting to see that the ones that rolled around on the cutting room floor had happy expressions, while a lot of the others had the typical sulky model expression.
Yup…..luv the coat!!! The rest……well…..very artistic, creative…………..
That looks like fun. A lot of it is art rather than apparel, but that’s okay. thanks for sharing.
Yes, I also took a look at the Chinese Fashion Week for the regular industry, not students. Almost every was black, or gray, with unique but very tailored silhouettes. Probably a lot more practical than the student work for getting around in polluted China. I was trying to imagine how those student show models with all the padding would be received trying to get around in a bus or subway.
I love seeing these photos but they do make me awfully happy to live in a world where jeans and a button-down shirt count for fashion!
I wouldn’t mind dressing up a little like those last three pictures, but the sheep would probably be scared. Shoot, even the ladies at quilt group would be scared! 🙂
Those wire structures on the face are somewhat hilarious; I just can’t imagine anyone wanting to walk around looking like that! I had to chuckle at the wild five; that first one looked like she was in a paint ball game. Yes, looking at fashion in other countries is interesting but really makes me glad I live in the USA!
But now you can go out of the house in your fuzzy slippers, and if anyone says anything, just say you are on the leading edge of a new trend from China. 🙂
Great idea!
LOL…I can see my self trying to hang out cloths with all those danglely things hanging on me. LOL I wonder how long it would take the crows to notice?
Probably not long! I was reading in Audubon magazine how smart crows are and how long they remember things. A researcher who has studied them for 20 years or so, put on a caveman mask when he would go trap some (he released them after some studies), and every time he or an assistant goes out with the caveman mask on, the crows mob him! They remember the mask. Here’s that article if you’re interested. If you hung out clothes with colorful yarns on them, maybe your crows would start decorating their nests!
I just loved this, the colours, the whimsical, the detail and the fun of it all… I have included your blog in Friday Fossicking, Interesting Blogs…
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Thank you! I will drop by and check out the other ones you included this week!
Okay, I really got lost in the Queensland Archive blog and then followed their links to the US National Archives and they have several blogs…I learned a lot today! thank you!
Golly. Pretty much speechless. 🙂
When you look out among your congregation, and see someone in a bathrobe/afghan/slippers combination, you will know that they’re not planning on sleeping through the sermon, they’re just being fashionable. 🙂
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