Some thoughts on the Schiaparelli animal looks -
The outrage over the Schiaparelli animal heads is very misguided. The level of expertise required to make these hand embroidered, painted, moulded faux animal heads is just amazing.
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@petrichhore
textile and fashion nerd/ come for the fashion tweets, leave because of the rants
Joined April 2019
- Just found out about Ashley Scott, a black American sculptor and artist based in Berlin. Her husband is a huge Mugler fan and he collects original Thierry Mugler pieces from across the globe and she wears them; I’m OBSESSED
- Schiaparelli needs to release a shocking perfume with an amazing bottle to capitalise on their heat, as a company I don’t understand their revenue model beyond couture and clothes which are inaccessible. They need to do something to firmly solidify their cultural footprint
- Replying to @petrichhoreThere is no such thing as these looks being inappropriate. They are grotesque but human consumption that harvests every real resource in this world is just as grotesque. It is hypocritical to say these looks promote animal cruelty while we push things such as faux fur & leather
- Replying to @petrichhoreIf we remove the animal heads we are left with a faux fur snow leopard-esque dress which Im sure would have been received so well. Ask yourself why the heads invite such rage, it might be because they remind us of the violence we inflict for our consumption
- Replying to @petrichhoreBoth faux fur and leather also promote the visual and textural effects of real fur and leather. If you are fine with faux pieces, then this is no different in that regard. There’s no face on the packed supermarket meat, so you don’t find it gross.
- Replying to @petrichhoreYes the looks are shocking, but they are only shocking because a face has been put onto a material we so regularly consume. If we are happy to engage in animal goods (visually too), we must keep this in mind. Its only inappropriate because the faces remind us of the violence
- Tiktok is so interesting because you see first-world youth engage in cookie-size Marxist discourse on labour and wealth whilst fiercely defending their right to slay every day by purchasing 30 new outfits every season made from the blood labour of third world children and women
- I’ve wrapped up this project recently - handwoven cotton zari dress with plunging neckline and a flared six panel construction. Photographed by me
- ajrakh print, a resist block printing technique from Ajrakhpur in Gujarat that uses natural dyes to create colours (indigo, madder, lac etc) on likely modal satin or a thicker silk, which is embroidered with square pailletes around much of the cream negative space
- My local paan wala loves this guy, says that he feels empowered in bolstering the decor on his own stand (he’s got a new metal plaque and glass jars with ciggies in them). Said verbatim ‘Before, I could not imagine someone making money online as a personality with our jobs-Bro alone failed the education system. 💀
- The obsession to dress like ‘old money’ is a cause without a goal. Old moneyed folks have their own social networks across countries, mannerisms that vary across cultures that are signifiers of wealth, spots to frequent, lineages that are name dropped, professions of choice etc
- finding out her great great grandfather was a close friend of Marx and Engels and a communist revolutionary altered my brain chemistryHahahaha David Beckham wasn’t having Victoria as coming from a working class family.
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