Sorry, does anyone know why can't I watch that?
Actually , yesterday I tried and tried to connect it .
But voilà until now it's not working. I really want to watch that.

By CHOi at 13:50 Thu 22 Feb 2007 | reply to this >

Ohhh, you're really testing us. What IS it? Botticelli? Fra Angelico? The flying Lippi brothers?

By Penny Martin at 13:54 Thu 22 Feb 2007 | reply to this >

I'm sorry, I can't really understand. What do you mean ?

By CHOi at 14:07 Thu 22 Feb 2007 | reply to this >

Does anyone here know Charlie, WOW. The shoot with him alone was amazing, I was captured to my screen !! I would like to try and get in contact with him to take him to paris, I think we could do a lot with him

By Francoiu Paris - Booker at 16:15 Thu 22 Feb 2007 | reply to this >

Does the photo shoot ‘BEASTINGS’ challenge the metanarratives of post-modernism, or is it a direct negation of western consumerism and cultural values, within a post-colonial discourse? It seems that Galliano is making an implicit political statement on the west’s fascination with ‘primitive’ cultures, within the domain of haute couture makes it even more political and controversial, due to the position of haute couture within western society: high cultural consumerist values conflates with cultures of ‘otherness’, this in turn produces a visual dissonance that is both disturbing and familiar.

Galliano is a good example of a bricoleur; but is it accurate to describe Galliano’s fashion designs as being ‘prehistoric fashions’? It is well know that Galliano spent a considerable period of time in North Africa, and this influence can clearly be seen in some of his more outlandish designs. I doubt that that the period when Stonehenge was built would have provided the complex iconography employed in his designs, which touch on contemporary academic debates regarding the re-appropriation of western culture within local and regional cultural constructions. Is the ‘BEASTINGS’ photo shoot a modernist and colonial interpretation of the some of elements within Galliano’s fashion collection that have been derived from sophisticated ‘primitive’ cultural practices? And does the photo shoot negate the importance of the rich cultural connotations of Galliano’s designs within a post-colonial and global perspective?

The photo shoot seems to be done by trial and error with a vague idea regarding the final outcome, rather than basing the intention of the shoot on theories or a preconceived approach.

The “BEASTINGS’ shoot has adopted an intuitive approach to the subject matter, this is the case with the vast majority of fashion shoots currently being done. Steven Klein is one of the few fashion photographers who does not adopt this approach, and mainly produces work that is both enigmatic with a strong emotional narrative. Can a ‘let it happen approach’ produce pictures that are both compelling to look at while also transcending current notions of fashion photography, with its ‘let it happen approach’? And would a theoretical approach that incorporates complex metanarratives produce work that transcends the logocentric nature of fashion photography, within the simulacra of visual media overload?

From what I have seen of the photo shoot it seems that it has adopted a Eurocentric and phallocentric approach. Am I correct in this assumption?

And finally, it would be interesting to see a fashion shoot based around the theme of hypermodernity in the near future. Could this theme be interpreted convincingly within fashion photography?

By marko at 11:56 Fri 23 Feb 2007 | reply to this >

Is there move files of this project I can see now?
I missed this!

By teru at 02:22 Sat 14 Apr 2007 | reply to this >