Fashion-Totem-Dance seen in VOGUE France
Vogue-fashion-tribal1
©estandrea 2009
Wild patterns everywhere, the inspiration for this painting was a photograph in this week’s VOGUE-France edition. I draw the dance-posture and clothes as they appeared in the picture, but gave it a different face and haircolor. Apparently fashion designers now fancy “real” animalskin in addition to animalskin-patterns, printed on silky fabric.
I personally don’t like this skin-idea very much.
The picture was nice and reminded me of this old movie I watched( in the Jackson Pollock exhibition I talked about in a post which you can find here in the new blog) about tribal Northamerican art, where a medecin man wrapped in animalskin danced a wild rythmic dance….
Is fashion something tribal?
thefreedictionnary:
| Adj. | 1. | tribal – relating to or characteristic of a tribe; “tribal customs”tribe // (tr b)
n.
1. A unit of sociopolitical organization consisting of a number of families, clans, or other groups who share a common ancestry and culture and among whom leadership is typically neither formalized nor permanent.
2. A political, ethnic, or ancestral division of ancient states and cultures, especially:
a. Any of the three divisions of the ancient Romans, namely, the Latin, Sabine, and Etruscan.
b. Any of the 12 divisions of ancient Israel.
c. A phyle of ancient Greece.
3. A group of people sharing an occupation, interest, or habit: a tribe of graduate students.
4. Informal A large family.
5. Biology A taxonomic category placed between a subfamily and a genus or between a suborder and a family and usually containing several genera.
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Great question…another question would be, If you wear the wrong threads are you a member of the tribe?
I agree with you, Andrea…animal skins on skinny humans is sad, not glamorous.
Patricia, you make me smile, cause I more often see animal skins on not so skinny humans, and that isn’t glamorous neither:) Funny cause in my mind all those expensive and in a way cruel furrcoats etc are associated with the image of elderly round Ladies. I don’t want to hurt feelings here neither but I think it’s perhaps only an issue of ignorance, cause if someone takes a closer look at how this is all done, he/she can’t possibly want to buy a furr coat. Yet, I too wear a leather jacket and boots but thing, that is different. It’s a complex issue!
Love the drawing. But not real animal skins for wearing. Love to know where ideas for drawings come from. So glad to see you painting again.
Cris thanks for your comment, and oh, yes, Vogue Magazine is a wonderful inspiration if you don’t take it too seriously:) there are always great fashion photographs in there, and you can see very beautiful things which you can never ever afford in your life unless you win in the big lottery…But that’s ok cause who wants to carry around a necklace worth millions of dollars:):)
love
Andrea
If i meet her in the city i would certainly think fashion has gone wild.
Love your drawing!
XXXm
Martine:) thanks for commenting, and that is the thing here in Paris, in daylight and on the streets you never see such “catwalk” fashion, only the mild version of it:) Have a great Sunday, love, Andrea
Love your new blog format Andrea!
Much more so than animal prints on people!
Thanks Babs for making the trip here:)
I love your painting and can imagine your excitement when you found this image to spark your work! Real animal skin? Eeek, I am not sure about that although it does sound very tribal. Well, I do know that the belief some Native American tribes have is that IF you are going to take an animal’s life then the only honorable thing to do is to use every part of the body…of course we know that isn’t how it works most often. Sad! I suppose people have done things to adorn the body in all cultures and throughout history, so I suppose you could say fashion is a tribal instinct. Think of how it would be if we did not have fashion! Also sad! What if we all wore the same thing and had no means to express ourselves as individuals to the passers-by? This is an interesting topic to discuss and I am glad you brought it up. It shows just how important art is in describing culture!
Hi Kim, you are right and Vogue Paris Magazine is full of excellent fashion photography (whatever my opinion may be about the deeper impact of it all:)
first thing i thought was “fran”
playing the nanny
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and that is a huge compliment
xxx
Klaproos, I had to goodle Fran the Nanny cause I never heard of her:) Can you imagine? What a cultur gap! This looks like a fun series and thanks for the compliment.