March, 6th, 2015

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IN THE MOOD FOR MODE

#MaggieCheung, as Mrs. Chan, glides through the winding alley ways and cramped noodle bars of 1962 Hong Kong in figure-hugging, beautifully constructed cheongsams. These are atypical cheongsams, the traditional Chinese dresses, also known as qípáo in M andarin Chinese, or as M andarin gowns in English, and are different even from the more modern cheongsams developed in Shanghai in the 1920s: the collars are higher, the shoulders more defined, they are hemmed just below the knee and come in a wonderful variety of fabrics. It is all the poetic craft of William Chang Suk-Ping, #artdirec tor extraordinaire. Mrs. Chan dresses in nothing but cheongsams, but she would st and out anywhere. So far, this #FW15 season is fashionably frantic and frantically fashion like our instantaneous consumerism. I don’t like this fashion. It’s transi tory. I want an illusion of fashion, on the haunting, recurring refrain of #ShigeruUmebayashi’s Yumeji’s Theme {@Tom_Ford revamped it in George’s Waltz’s #ASingleMan film}. In motion. In nonchalance. In apnea. Qui sait? peut-être que #YohjiYamamo to décélèrera, aujourd’hui, cette célébration du corps artificialisé qui sublime les nécessités matérielles en indexant le féminin païen sur le féminin hé doniste. Comme l’amour, heartbeat by heartbeat. #Fashion is about #rhythm. Fashion is #InTheMoodForLove but no designer is painting on its silence..
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