Regular readers know that twice a year, I blog about all the fascinating, beautiful, mesmerizing, strange, puzzling, outrageous, outstanding, unusual, artistic, inspiring sartorial creations coming out of the exquisite imaginations of designers, and down the runway. Regular readers may have also gleaned that I follow fashion the way some people delve into the art world. I think of "fashion" as "costume"--as a way to convey an idea or a concept. I appreciate what some designers do the same way one appreciates what an avant garde sculptor or painter or performance artist does. And in a way, these designers are performance artists. For me, it is not about what is hanging on racks in stores, but what these artists are creating and the ideas and concepts they are working with as an influence on their marvelous creativity. It is moving sculpture. It is theater. Fashion and clothing at this level serve as a kind of visual shorthand. A piece of clothing in the hands of a designer can evoke a place, a region, a country, a specific time or an entire era, a work of art such as a novel or film or painting, a class of people, even a social, financial, or spiritual element... and the combination of such pieces of clothing, as well as their harmony or contrast, can tell a fascinating story.
Now that COVID seems to be under control, physical shows have returned and the schedule is as it was pre-COVID with London at the start and Paris at the end.
JUNE 2023 FASHION SCHEDULE -- SUMMER 2024
London Fashion Week
June 9 - 12, 2023
https://londonfashionweek.co.uk/
Pitti Uomo, Florence
June 13 - 16, 2023
https://uomo.pittimmagine.com/en
Milano Moda Uomo
June 16 - 20, 2023
https://milanofashionweek.cameramoda.it/it
Paris Fashion Week Homme
June 20- 25, 2023
https://www.fhcm.paris/en/paris-fashion-week
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I spent a long time pointedly ignoring high fashion because it wasn't made for my body (or the bodies of any people I know) and it seemed like architecture that no ordinary human could enter. A waste of time. But now I see it more as you say here: it's art; it's the kind of art that's not meant to hang over the back of the sofa. And (like any art form) there's lots that is self-indulgent or simply awful, but there's also story-telling, a conveyance of emotion. I look forward to reading your thoughts.
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