Politics should start at home, and accordingly stylist Camille Bidault-Waddington addresses the issue of Political Fashion with examples from her own career. Bidault-Waddington questions the issue of personal politics, and how working in fashion can affect one’s perceptions of what is and isn’t ‘politically correct’.
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What exactly do you mean?
By Sandrine at 12:48 Tue 04 Mar 2008 | reply to this >
Thank you 4 asking ! .... and .... that's exactly what I mean :):)
By Galileo's Universe at 05:06 Wed 05 Mar 2008 | reply to this >
Were you being sarcastic? Or in all sincerity, were you arguing that you should be charitable in so far as it doesn't inconvenience you personally?
By Sandrine at 11:08 Wed 05 Mar 2008 | reply to this >
Sarcastic is nearest to the truth and a way of putting it ... I hope that helps to answer your question.
By Galileo's Universe at 11:26 Wed 05 Mar 2008 | reply to this >
Congratulations to Camille for voicing (albeit with the faux disguise) the 'discussion about propriety' between Commissioning Editor and Freelancer that you often hear about in the industry by nobody ever admits to. How i laughed when i opened up the current Paris Vogue and saw the very same story about the chic woman in the wheelchair. Why, exactly, is that not 'correct', as Camille puts it?
By Penny Martin at 12:44 Tue 04 Mar 2008 | reply to this >
why should artists be allowed to comment on a whole range of issues without feeling that it is not 'correct' where as people who work in fashion with every bit as much integrity and commitment to their work as any artist should feel this guilt about expressing their opinions and observation about the world around them? There is much more money handed round in contemporary art than in fashion ,the gallery system is just as much a money making machine as is any fashion brand, so just as much part of the capitalist system.
So don't you be guilted into not expressing your thoughts Camille. Say what you feel !
By harley at 22:37 Thu 06 Mar 2008 | reply to this >
YES !!! say what you feel ..... and don't mind the high self-appointed priests/priestess of 'political correctness' ! ... who by the way in many cases have only managed to kill or suppress the ' freedom of expression ' by creating sometimes a climate of witch-hunting and often closed the avenues to debate about subjects of urgent need of thinking and serious moral or/and political debate ! ...
By Galileo's Universe at 07:07 Sun 09 Mar 2008 | reply to this >
.... I totally second that !.... 'politics should start at home' ... but we always have to show how ' charitable, understanding and politically correct ' we are .... as long as it doesn't affect us personally or if possible far... far ... away from home !!! ... and to be' fashionable' is indeed to be 'politically correct ' ...
By Galileo's Universe at 07:47 Tue 04 Mar 2008 | reply to this >