Fash pt1
Sbh blog post fashion part 1
Hiyah…
…Ta for coming back after last week’s indulgence in my rants, thanks for the understanding…tho just give this as a small warning, I do fear that they become more regular as I make the way through the world!!! People are soooo __________ aren’t they…Anyway this one is different as I’ve been thinking on how to counteract them ranty ones/also about what else I’d like the sbh ‘brand’ to do for me. Having an area for the rants is great, it feels very cathartic, hope some of them have some entertainment value, but I wouldn’t want ‘this’ to be solely devoted to that, it’d be like that angry person in the bar who with small comment launches into a tirade and then everyone avoids…who wants to be that?
Hmmm…actually…maybe that’s not such a…err no I dint wanna be that person…
Anyway its funny how things come around int it, I’ve been thinking about where to fit some other stuff in, then realising that of course this is the perfect space for it!!!
What am I talkin about?
Well I’m takalking Fashion darlinga of course !
Art for the masses, only way to express yourself silently, the armour to survive everyday life, the stuff that you wear, the stuff you’d really like to wear etc, etc……...
Now I’ve loved fash since I first picked up a camera…admittedly I don’t know as much as I’d like to know but then who does…I’ve got an ok grounding in it, that knowledge has been constructed from buying Vogue since the 90’s, with honourable mentions to the Face magazine/the I.D with regular components and bits over the years…More recently I’ve been getting my fashion fix frm the YouTube, watching in the gym (yes gym, anyone that knows me knows how big that iis, just trying to extend ones time and no its not just for the sauna…) Rent paid has been watching the catwalk shows while on the treadmill, now there’s symbolism, int there…
The recent kick has been the London/Milan/Paris fashions weeks…how different they are…added into that is the Supermodels documentary on Apple following Linda, Christy, Naomi and Cindy. (Tho the back biting surrounding it, proves you’re dammed if you do/dammed if you don’t…) Think this is one area where my brain processing stuff differently may actually be an advantage…It’s funny in what it sees / makes connections between. For example I’m watching the snobbery kick in as some shows get featured in the fashion weeks then get omitted in the collection round ups… while some others are dropped completely to the side-lines then they get coupled with the some odious remarks when the discourteous wade in…
Anyways I slightly digress….I’ll reel it back into my own story, now my own history with fash has been eventful, I always wanted to be a fash slash photographer but alas didn’t get presented with many opportunities to make that a thing and I certainly wasn’t thinking London was worth it…so alas those dreams never really came true...but now, but now with the changes I’ve made, fashion has been able to occupy more space in my life, this has taken forms of shared passions, crafting my new look and actually having time to actually browse stuff that I like and all that pomp that goes with that…In fact part of the reason I came up with the name of sbh was because of the striking effect a short blonde haircut has in darkened spaces i.e clubs and catwalks…sbh is such a staple of fashion, in that it symbolises so much, change, breakups, new lease, freshness, unashamed/unabashed…all of these/more…nice to see it was spotted on a few catwalks this year too...
So Yep I’m going to write about it, push some of my thoughts out there, see what happens…Nice hey…
This is by way of intro and hasn’t talked much about the stuuf so I’m thinking pacifics, have a couple of choices of what I could write about,
What the catwalks from this season have shown through my eyes, what the Winter 23 catwalks predicted and what you actually see, Why certain designers now, what Balenciaga’s summer 24 will look like this Sunday or How the sbh vibe is represented by a resurgent Cavalli….hmmmm….Or I could mix it in with the rants and talk about what designers choose to wear when make that little appearance at the end of shows, (Victoria yes, Virginie yep, Sarah no) Or what some frow people deem to be acceptable to wear there, I mean did they forget and were on their way to the tip? I’ve seen nwe ballnace and npikes on frow’s this year for gods’ sake…
Nope those last two will be too ranty…
Think I’m going to go with writing a little something (500wordcount?) on Balenciaga for next week!!!
No/yes I can hear the dissenting voices and yes I know I’m not qualified so therefore it must mean I’m setting myself up for ridicule and derisivement but let’s check a reminder here that tis my space, so long as it’s not hateful or disparaging then I can prattle on infinitely…I’d like to try this, as my therapist says if you don’t do it now…then when will you do it?
How stimULating…..
Ta for reading loves…
Ciao Bella.