Not contextualising fashion by putting it on a wall, which is what an exhibition should do.
Best example of a fashion exhibition is probably the versace exhibition.
Jacques Derrida:
Deconstruction - attempted to create a philosophy based on structure of philosophy. Quite hard to read.
Paregon:
Suggests frame which exists outside the object. Protects the work also, possibly from culture and society. The frame is inbetween space telling us where work begins and ends. Curation is about containing objects.
Derrida suggests that it is not the object that is beautiful but the representation of the object itself.
We can remain indifferent to an object but the representation of it may be beautiful
e.g the colour chart exhibition.
The exhibition was beautifully curated however i was indifferent to the objects themselves.
Can and should fashion be framed?
How should it be displayed?
Is fashion a socially driven discipline rather than a culturally or aesthetically driven discipline - is it useful to curate and display fashion atall?
Tuesday, 26 January 2010
Aesthetics: Seminar thoughts.
Fashion and the idea of taste are inextricably linked. They are also culturally and temporarily specific.
Its subjective and therefore difficult to know what excatly taste is.
Issues:
1. Professional issues: How does institute create taste.
2. Revivals and Retro: Is it possible for fashion to really return.
3. Issues of taste and identity: e.g androgyny and Mary Quant. She wanted to do away with the idea that girls turn into their mums. Shifted signifiers of women and taste away from the traditional.
Androgynous look sought to redifine markers of taste.
Taste is temporal and the markers of taste can be changed.
Taste is not a succession
Taste was an object that was owned by the old and middle and upper classes, she refuted the idea that cheap fashion couldn't be tasteful.
Fashion and bad taste:
Alexander Mcqueen Highland Rape (1995)
Gareth Pugh
As their reputations rise on the basis of bad taste their designs become tasteful.
The design has not changed it is our relationship to it that changes, our reception to it changes.
Its subjective and therefore difficult to know what excatly taste is.
Issues:
1. Professional issues: How does institute create taste.
2. Revivals and Retro: Is it possible for fashion to really return.
3. Issues of taste and identity: e.g androgyny and Mary Quant. She wanted to do away with the idea that girls turn into their mums. Shifted signifiers of women and taste away from the traditional.
Androgynous look sought to redifine markers of taste.
Taste is temporal and the markers of taste can be changed.
Taste is not a succession
Taste was an object that was owned by the old and middle and upper classes, she refuted the idea that cheap fashion couldn't be tasteful.
Fashion and bad taste:
Alexander Mcqueen Highland Rape (1995)
Gareth Pugh
As their reputations rise on the basis of bad taste their designs become tasteful.
The design has not changed it is our relationship to it that changes, our reception to it changes.
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