Vogue workers dress: pretty shabby
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wasting_time88 — 16 years ago(October 27, 2009 05:14 PM)
i have to say i disagree, esspecially about anna, i thort she always looked lovely throughout the whole filmi wouldn't say that the others dressed shabby either, just casual workware, their on their feet all day so they have to be comfortable, but i'd say they were all wearing designer
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burnleygirl — 16 years ago(November 01, 2009 10:53 AM)
Although I disagree with your comment about Anna, I agree that everybody else in the offices dressed dowdy and not even a lick of make-up..nothing like you'd imagine. I work in an office with a 9-5 job and myself and my colleagues put a lot more effort into looking presentable than those.
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maligin87 — 16 years ago(November 02, 2009 05:12 AM)
If they're going out to a party at night, they all dress up of course, but druing the day they have to be as confortable as poissble, because they're running around and they're close cannot be restrictive or too precious.
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directorguy__ — 16 years ago(November 26, 2009 11:43 PM)
My thoughts exactly, I was expecting the workers to be much, much more glamorous. Anna's style is low-key but very tasteful. Grace Coddington's style was.not too great, but given her position at Vogue and reputation as being the resident antithesis to Anna/Vogue, it's tolerated.
Now the assistants and other editorscould do a much, much better job. They looked like regular office workers, worse even, since they were less formal and more drab. -
tropezienne — 16 years ago(December 10, 2009 03:29 PM)
Not everyone in the fashion business puts effort into their own clothing choices. Of course there are those that work in fashion that care deeply in the how they present themselvesbut this is not always the case. Grace Coddington, for example, is so engaged in her work and creating a world fit for gorgeous haute couture, she doesn't need to dress according to a certain standard. It's the same case for many designers and creative people (artists, fashion designers, architects)..for these people, they are surrounded by creativity and they spend their careers dedicated to art and design. I would imagine attendeding most of the fashion shows in Paris and New York for many, many years, working in an office filled with the latest clothing and accessories and having to process an overwhelming amount of designs daily would lead me to wear all black and not wear make-up as well.
Just because you work in fashion doesn't necessarily mean you dress well. -
bowery_boy — 16 years ago(February 26, 2010 09:16 AM)
there is NO EXCUSE for dressing shabby. never. there is no excuse, just lack of taste. and comfort has nothing to do with style.
What an elitist thing to say. I disagree completely.
One of the BIGGEST excuses for dressing shabby is lack of money. If you don't have the funds to dress nicely you have to make do with what you got. You have to make do with what you can afford. Period.
And some people just don't know how to dress.
On the flipside, I would agree there's no excuse to dress shabby IF YOU WORK AT VOGUE MAGAZINE. -
chopper0116 — 16 years ago(February 24, 2010 03:05 PM)
Being a native New Yorker everything I wore was black, black, black & more black! Hard to read designer fashion for me anymore as it is still all black..LOL
I liked this film more than i thought I would BTW>
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bing-57 — 16 years ago(February 28, 2010 10:54 PM)
Do they not believe their own mythology?
That's always been my problem with the fashion industry. I see magazines like this and some of the modeling shows on TV and think, "Does anyone really buy or wear any of these stupid dresses with hundreds of feathers or angel wings or wire structures that extend three feet out?"
I never see any other magazines with top-name actresses arriving at a movie opening with fabric birds on their shoulders or dressed like King Tut. And I can't imagine any high-culture women would be seen dead wearing a flapper dress out to the country club or a Michelin Man suit to dinner at the finest restaurant.
Who buys any of the things seen in that 800-page magazine?
Another thing that bothers me that this movie made very clear is that the designers seem to have no idea what they are doing. Throughout the movie we saw literally thousands of "new" dresses shown to Anna and she rejected almost all of them. It seems to me that designers are just creating any old crap and throwing it at Anna to see what sticks.
Is the whole industry just a series of costumes for clown college?
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xboxfreak52591 — 16 years ago(March 02, 2010 11:55 PM)
To answer the original question: Vogue employees are on their feet running places all dayit's not like a regular office job where you just sit down and MAYBE get up for a presentation or to go to the fax. Not only that but most of the people at Vogue are middle aged and above, meaning they don't care as much. It is work after all. They care more about creating and showing the beauty/fashion more than living in it themselves MOST of the time.
To the comments on people not wearing couture/runway garments: People don't even notice when they DP wear things they shoot/couture. For example, the green Chanel couture jacket from Graces shoot near the endAnna wore it in a deleted scene and you would never have thought it could have been worn/shot like the model was wearing it. They shoot it in fantasy levels with whole looks. You have to look at it piece by piece if you are looking at it as daily attire. And yes, obviously, people buy couture or they wouldn't make it, that's just idiotic..a lot of people that do have lives we can't think about; royalty and such, people that go to balls and events all the time. People wear it. Just not as many as would wear..Gap or something. That's why most designers have couture lines and regular lines and they have plenty more ready to wear shops than couture show rooms.
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bing-57 — 16 years ago(March 03, 2010 12:43 AM)
people buy couture or they wouldn't make it, that's just idiotic..a lot of people that do have lives we can't think about; royalty and such, people that go to balls and events all the time. People wear it.
Really? So you mean right now there is some high-class woman wearing that King Tut costume from the movie to the social event of the season? And someone is wearing flapper clothes to the country-club fund raiser?
I guess I really don't fit in with the cultural elite. I think that wearing a Michelin Man dress in public would look stupid. But then again it was my great, great grandfather who pointed out one day that the Emperor wasn't wearing any clothes.
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princessmcdreamy — 15 years ago(July 13, 2010 11:43 PM)
bing-57 - You should watch the documentary "The secret world of Haute Couture"
The women who buy couture (and by the way, this is a very select few as you have to be in the 'club' to even get to see something from a couture collection) often describe buying couture as like buying a piece of art. Sometimes they don't wear it, they have it for show in their home. Some donate it later on to a museum. Some do of course wear them, but the act of buying couture is to them an investment in art. -
bing-57 — 15 years ago(July 13, 2010 11:52 PM)
describe buying couture as like buying a piece of art.
It seems to me that a lot of the art I see the upper crust buy is trash sometimes literally.
That is a state of affairs when people throw all that money away. I hope I'm never that rich where I lose touch with reality.
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brunchisonme — 15 years ago(August 29, 2010 01:09 PM)
This response is very frustrating to me because you have to be mindful of people's tastes. There are people who encompass their lives around fashion and it attracts them like whatever attracts you.
Would you say an art collector is throwing his money away? One who collects couture pieces could be considered an art collector. -
bing-57 — 15 years ago(August 29, 2010 02:42 PM)
This response is very frustrating to me because you have to be mindful of people's tastes.
Do I? Why? If I think someone's taste sucks, why do I have to tell you that you have good taste? You may see a toilet glued to the ceiling as great art but I see it as trash and I will tell you that.
If I just clap and call it good when I don't think so, then I am just recreating the story, "The Emperor's New Clothes."
Would you say an art collector is throwing his money away?
As long as there are more dupes in the future who will pay top dollar for the collection, then no he's not throwing away his money.
One who collects couture pieces could be considered an art collector.
Perhaps. But couture goes out of style in the blink of an eye and becomes worthless. To me, that is throwing money away, just as if I was a collector of fruit; the stuff goes bad and my money is gone.
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brunchisonme — 15 years ago(August 29, 2010 04:03 PM)
I said mindful, I don't know if you're aware of what that means but it doesn't mean you have to agree with everyone's tastes. Acknowledge it, accept your differences, and don't put it/whoever is able to appreciate it down relentlessly.
And on the contrary, while Ready-to-Wear clothes are always going out of fashion and out of season, couture is literally considered art pieces. They are kept in museums and in archives of designers to be admired and appreciated, not to be worn once and sold on eBay. Their value goes up rather than down. It's worth no more or less than any other piece of art.
I know you're not interested because you fail to see the point in this, but please educate yourself on the subject more before making arguments on your current basis of little knowledge. Haute Couture and Ready-to-Wear are two different categories of design. Ready-to-Wear is also expensive and designer but meant to be worn for everyday purposes. Haute Couture is far more grandeur and these are the 'King Tut' or 'feather' pieces you're always on about. It isn't meant for its wearability like the aforementioned Ready-to-Wear, it's a display of the designer's ability in his craft and his level of workmanship, as well as attention to detail, etc.
I'm hardly interested in 'fashion' anymore. If the entire industry shut down tomorrow I wouldn't care, but it's not as vapid and pointless as you make it out to be and close-mindedness is intolerable for me. It's as admirable as any art form and I hope you come to realize that, or at least accept what other people see it to be. -
bing-57 — 15 years ago(August 29, 2010 05:45 PM)
It isn't meant for its wearability like the aforementioned Ready-to-Wear, it's a display of the designer's ability in his craft and his level of workmanship, as well as attention to detail, etc.
So then, is a chef who makes food that isn't fit for consumption considered to be a great chef?
If the entire industry shut down tomorrow I wouldn't care, but it's not as vapid and pointless as you make it out to be
As long as they recruit more people into the cult it will continue on forever and magazines like Vogue will grow in popularity.
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brunchisonme — 15 years ago(August 30, 2010 11:59 AM)
But they're still clothes and they are fit to be worn, but generally not for day to day. Presuming you have enough money to own the pieces, you probably have some event to go to or what have you where the clothes are still appropriate. Whether the buyer chooses to wear the extravagant styles or not is their decision.
It serves a purpose whichever way you look at it.
My argument is valid and I'm better informed and more articulate than you. You're just close minded. I WIN C YA