pastthestorm: hickiesandhotpants: vodkadrunkenski: buttahlove: malindajane: Kate Winslet in Stella McCartney fall 2011 IS THIS WOMAN REAL? She is perfection personified; I can’t even handle it. WHOA! Talk about garment illusion! Kudos to the designer of this dress. I actually don’t like this…it’s like Photoshopped images but irl. The dress is designed to make their waist look thinner and boobs look bigger. Not cool… yea, no thanks. How is ^this^ different than this? Oh yea, one is made by a ~*fancy designer*~. -_______- At the same time, it could be read as a commentary on the way we perceive and “read” female bodies—I would LOVE to see Beth Ditto in a Beth-sized version, you know? (What’s most interesting about this dress to me is that I believed the illusion at first—and was totally unperturbed by it, which I think speaks to how frightening the prevalence of manipulated images is, and how salient those images are, considering that I actively try to avoid looking at them whenever possible.) I find this kinda thought-provoking in a way that fashion generally is not, to me. I think because it’s Kate Winslet wearing this dress, a woman who is openly critical of the extreme level of photo-shopping and body criticism that goes on. It’s intriguing to me. Could this dress be read as a kind of self-conscious critical statement? I don’t know really. I’m kinda leaning towards yes because this is the opposite of shape wear and ‘flattering lines’ — things that are meant to be invisible, meant to trick — this is like a magician performing an illusion and simultaneously showing in the simplest and starkest detail how it is done. ’ Hey, look at me, I’m tricking you! Isn’t that funny?! But kind of amazing?!’ Anyway. Hmmm. She looks smokin’.

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hickiesandhotpants:

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buttahlove:

malindajane:

Kate Winslet in Stella McCartney fall 2011

IS THIS WOMAN REAL? She is perfection personified; I can’t even handle it.


WHOA! Talk about garment illusion! Kudos to the designer of this dress.

I actually don’t like this…it’s like Photoshopped images but irl. The dress is designed to make their waist look thinner and boobs look bigger. Not cool…

yea, no thanks. How is ^this^ different than this?

Oh yea, one is made by a ~*fancy designer*~. -_______-

At the same time, it could be read as a commentary on the way we perceive and “read” female bodies—I would LOVE to see Beth Ditto in a Beth-sized version, you know?

(What’s most interesting about this dress to me is that I believed the illusion at first—and was totally unperturbed by it, which I think speaks to how frightening the prevalence of manipulated images is, and how salient those images are, considering that I actively try to avoid looking at them whenever possible.)

I find this kinda thought-provoking in a way that fashion generally is not, to me. I think because it’s Kate Winslet wearing this dress, a woman who is openly critical of the extreme level of photo-shopping and body criticism that goes on. It’s intriguing to me. Could this dress be read as a kind of self-conscious critical statement? I don’t know really. I’m kinda leaning towards yes because this is the opposite of shape wear and ‘flattering lines’ — things that are meant to be invisible, meant to trick — this is like a magician performing an illusion and simultaneously showing in the simplest and starkest detail how it is done. ’ Hey, look at me, I’m tricking you! Isn’t that funny?! But kind of amazing?!’ Anyway. Hmmm. She looks smokin’.
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