The Scavenger's Daughter

« Mary Douglas's work, as well as feminist deconstructions of the meanings contained in representations of the female body, inspired a generation of anthropologists and cultural theorists to explore the human body as a text that can be read to reveal a great deal of cultural information. This symbolic function of the body applies not only to the taboos and rituals described by Douglas, but to parts of the body, to representations of the human body—in artworks, medical texts, racial ideology, and advertisements—and to decorations and modifications of the flesh, from ornaments, hair fashion, cosmetics, masking, costuming, tattooing, piercing, and scarification, to body fattening or thinning, muscular development, and cosmetic surgery. However extreme or seemingly whimsical the practice, it always has meaning, always is shaped by the sociocultural context in and through which people act. Anthropologist Terence Turner called this dimension of the body the "social skin" a concept that applies just as aptly to the nineteenth-century corset and twentieth-century implants as to the traditional neck rings of the Karen peoples of Burma or lip plugs of the Amazonian Kayapo. » Read more: The Body - The Social Skin - Traditional, Modifications, Cultural, Racial, Example, and Meanings
« Finding ways to express yourself in a socially acceptable way may be hard when you're filled with emotions. Social Skin is series of moving accessories that help to improve the communication between people by expressing these emotions. The project resulted in three prototypes, out of which two are conceptual prototypes and the third, a necklace, is fully functional. » Social Skin Emotional Accessories
« L’analyse culturelle ne considère pas la culture comme un système figé qui gouverne les actions des individus en modelant leur personnalité, mais comme un cadre de référence, certes donné, mais que les individus façonnent et transforment au cours de leurs interactions. Elle part des individus qui construisent le sens de leurs actions selon les exigences du contexte social dans lequel ils se trouvent. Dans leurs transactions, ils mobilisent des valeurs et des principes qui leur permettent d’agir avec les autres et de justifier leurs actions selon des modalités qui puissent être comprises et acceptées par les autres. Ces unités de culture sont une composante active dans les négociations entre les individus lorsqu’ils cherchent à produire un sens partagé. Elles présentent une certaine plasticité dont l’analyse culturelle cherche à rendre compte en faisant appel aux orientations et aux contraintes que présente le contexte social. » L’analyse culturelle de Mary Douglas : une contribution à la sociologie des institutions
« Social Skin is a project by Seçil Ugur and Laura Duncker, made at the Wearable Senses research theme at the Industrial Design department at the Technical University of Eindhoven, in collaboration with Florian Neveu (technology) and supervised by Stephan Wensveen. They are the first prototypes in Seçil's continuing research for her PhD in Design at the Politecnico di Milano, supervised by Raffaella Mangiarotti (Design Faculty), Monica Bordegoni, Umberto Cugini and Marina Carulli (Mechanical Engineering Department). » Social Skin Emotional Accessories

Now, stop falling there searching for pictures of Karl Lagerfeld without glasses, Young Karl Lagerfeld, "wet karl largarfelt" or fat Karl Lagerfeld. Search for Fake Karl, seriously.
Also want some pictures of YSL/KL after International Wool Scretariat annual contest?

Yves is *happy*, he just won first and third places on some dress category stuff.
Also got a photography of him costuming little young Nicolas Sarkozy, along with his (Yves') friendoes Victoire & Pierre Bergé (alias PBG, just jokin' around).
Also got picture of young KL dressed as young YSL.

I don't get why people find this haircut, the one with the hair short one side and long or not that short on the other, so original and say they wouldn't have thought of. Are they imaginationless?
I thought of getting the same when I began to interest myself in fashion, but changed my opinion when I remembered people always tried to force me to cut them since my birth.
(makes me roll on the floor: some persons, who comes from the very same background as me, seems to think, and when I say they seems to think I say they seems not that I believe I know they think, that they are acting rebellious by acting rebellious by cutting their hairs or getting pierced, when people try to force me (us!) to get ear-pierced or cut my (our!) hears since I'm in age of deciding (since they weren't, thanks God I didn't have hairs until I could talk). Plus, my mother got her ears pierced, only worn ear-stuffs one or two times, and still have ear-piercing holes showing-oof -- even if it's only one millimeters I find it ugly, and people say it goes away after a while! I guess a while is a whole life for most people.)
When I was in what you english-speaking dudes call Sixth Grades two girls were wearing the haircut and we often see it on TV.
It looks like Chelsea cut or this one where you have long hairs near your face but not in the back, but longer than in the Chelsea cut.
I guess most persons avoid it because they don't want to be said original when they think they aren't, people who think it's original focusing on it instead of focusing on what you want them to, and wanting to do symmetric breads when impersonating Oona Goosepimple.

I know it's inspired by marine stuffs or what-do-i-know, but I promptly thought about prisoners, torture wheels (Saint Catherine!) and people who'd kill others during a sea trip by smashing their head with a rock in a stocking (that's the hood stuff) while being dressed in 1920 swimsuits as I browsed that.
A bit clinical by instants, and we also see historical inspiration.
That's what we always say, because inspiration is always historical.
Some pieces made me think of that famous Charles Addams' drawing, An Addams Family Holiday.

As this year is 75 years birthday of DC Comics, beautiful-people-slash-clothing-magnate-dudes decided partnershiping or how-do-you-call-it, these stuffs with the x's, was a great idea to make money, as everybody loves superheroes (and villains).
There was, amongst other stuffs, this Colette mid-year collection, and these nOir Jewelry stuffs (they are Cendrars fans) from this month (I guess), no doubt it's because New Comics #1 was published during December 1935.
There is a problem.
It doesn't really reflect these superheroes (and villains) (never forget about villains or make fun of, you know, bad idea)
Not only because of shiny stuffs, you get it, Olivier Theyskens did these boots who shines and it's more super-heroic than these Superman jewels by nOir Jewelry. (Clark would wear one of these rings at a social gathering shit to show everybody he is not Superman, plus they'd go well with his glasses, because most are too classy and color-lacking for Superman) (the Batman stuffs are made to be worn with these shoes)
I don't know if we read the same comics?
Take Batman, it's really dark, sometime in a weird and funny way.
Don't you sometimes want to laugh at Baby Doll or Mr Freeze, because you know if you were in these situations and started talking about it people would laugh at you, and then you'll go all supervillain?
Seriously, this Mr Freeze dude is a total zero! His brain must be freezin'! (yes, that's a bad one)
I guess we can explain that by the fact they don't really know if they should base the stuffs on character's personality, comics' atmosphere, comics' adaptations atmosphere, precedent tie-in products, character's costumes, and then which era costumes, according to which authors and/or in which adaptation? And who is Batman, shit?
Also, they have to keep the brand's spirit, as they do that to make money and don't want to lose their clients.
I think these clothes and jewlery based on Batman (the Batman, the one you think of when you aren't that interested in Batman) don't really reflects his personality and his past and his constant inner struggles, just the fact he's a strong man dressed as a bat (I love bats).
When they're based on the Joker, they don't reflects his madness, just the fact that... AH AH TOO FUNNY!
Boring side being, we've got Batman and the Joker, but not characters like Jason Todd.
I love Jason Todd. (problem with multiples identities; when I tell you I love Jason Todd it means I love him, not any fuck else) (so they have multiples identities, so which on do you take for clothes based on their personality? Perceived one when they're under cover or real one?)

Imagine they did that for EC Comics, Drusilla's dress would be the one with black shiny Swarovsky real flashy stuffs.

This too. (at least, Diane von Furstenberg really has her own interpretation of Wonder Woman)
But seriously, Flash and Repetto?

People often say fashion is a form of art.
Then they say it's wrong: fashion is an industry.
Then, smarter people remind the firsts that art itself is an industry.
And others want to preserve videogames programming art and the videogames industry.
You are funny.