Am vazut documentarul in acest weekend. De doua ori. Ceva din el m-a emotionat, m-a miscat, m-a facut sa pun deoparte un moment de reflectie serioasa. Subiectul documentarului e evident de la primele cadre: belgianul Raf Simons (anterior director de creatie la Jil Sander) este pus la carma artistica al casei de moda Christian Dior; mai mult, are doar 8 saptamani la dispozitie pentru a crea de la zero colectia Haute Couture toamna-iarna 2012 (cu toate pregatirile de rigoare). Se va descurca? Se va ridica la inaltimea asteptarilor? Va intelege
“Some think that chic is a form of deprivation – a sort of anorexia of accessories that strips you back to a bare, buffed and gleaming face, set on a frame of sleekly invisible dark-toned coordinates. Others profess that chic is classics – clothing so resolutely conservative and time-tested that anyone can scrub up like the Hepburns, Katherine or Audrey. But the principle of chic is more elastic than that. Looking stylish is not a matter of discipline, but of adaptation. There are rules but they don’t work for everyone,
In perioada asta a anului, window shopping-ul (online sau offline) capata o alta turnura. Vitrinele devin povesti, insa nu neaparat despre spiritul Craciunului ci despre cel al retailului. Harrods, Galeries Lafayette, Bloomingdales, Lord & Taylor, Bergdorf Goodman, Barney’s creeaza instalatii de arta, angajeaza arhitecti si maestri-papusari, pictori si scenografi, designeri si fotografi.
