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I feel phychic! Or certainly acutely aware...
posted on Thursday, September 27, 2007
If you've read my last blog...did it seem amazing that the Thursday Styles section of 9/27/07 had the headline "Everyone's a Critic" almost the next day?
They quoted Lloyd Boston, often on theToday Show and Carsten Kressley,of Queer Eye fame... two fellows who I believe know what they're talking about.
The article also sites the glut of "experts" who possibly are really more "showmen/showgirls" than anything else. They claim the industry expects the outrageous, the meaness, the flambouyance...and perhaps thats what the media supposes the public wants.
A viscious cycle that becomes a cartoonish circus.
Who loses? The viewer.
The viewers are cheated of the real information they need, that should be dispensed in a palatable way.
I believe there's lots of room for wit and humor AND for good information. Catty meanspirited-ness shouldn't be the "m-o" of an industry (even The Devil Wears Prada, had a lethal dose of that)...
Queer Eye, is probably the best of the shows, and it centers on guys.Women will always be given less than they deserve, unless the media lets up on the stereotype.
A matter of taste!
posted on Sunday, September 23, 2007
I remember Milena Canonero had a great observation about doing modern day clothes for movies...(and it's the same for commercials or for that matter, or a book like my "Forever Cool").."everyone has an opinion...!"
She claimed that for period clothes, a costume designer, has an easier time. When people don't have much personal reference with it...the farther ago the times....the less opinions.
How true!
It's so hard to argue taste. I so often disagree even with what supposed other "experts" deem an "after" transformation.
That's the issue I grapple with constantly, as I feel so assuredly that although there is always the exception to the rule... there is such thing as "great taste".
I feel I know it when I see it...some folks don't recognize it. I also feel I know it when I achieve it.
I always hope against hope that my readers and viewers will see the difference (refinement,appropriateness, class, artistry, and modernity) and truly appreciate the visuals I supply as examples...
An American Idol, Ralph Lauren
posted on Saturday, September 22, 2007
That's the title of the October Issue, Town and Country's article heralding Ralph's new book and his life and incredible career.
In Forever Cool he has the distinction of being one of the few designers that I applaud for their contribution to the aesthetic I describe as Forever Cool.He was, and continues to be one of my greatest influences. In the days of my costume design career, he helped me with my work by introducing already "worn"looking casual clothing that allowed me to skip the tedious and artificial process of beating up and washing clothes prior to a shoot, so that they look worn and not new.
I love the way he describes his influences...so supportive of my insistance that observation is key to great style. I also love how he describes his wife Ricky, her naturalness, uniqueness, and his best example of what he's all about.
I'm a "late bloomer"?
posted on Tuesday, September 18, 2007
As a costume designer and stylist working in NYC for so many of my younger years...I'd hop into a cab and head straight to a dep't store or costume house. I didn't have enough time to look "right or left". In important ways I was divorced from the real world.
It took moving out west, my transition into the private sector with private clients, , meeting and having friends outside of the "film business" for a change, and yes, getting older...to take that necessary pause....become more reflective...a better observer than ever before, and see what's truly around me....
I couldn't have "bloomed" into the person I am today with the goals I have today (and be taken seriously by my contemporaries)...without the time it took....and the age I needed to be... to speak well as an "expert" on my subject.
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