always love Craig.

well there you have it Muccia Prada thinks politics and fashion are relevant to each other.

Wonderful mix of opinions ! ... but I seem to have been fascinated mostly by the illustrious Muccia Prada faceless interview while holding that empty glass .... just exactly like a homeless person would do while begging on the streets for a coin to have a meal ...... surreal ... beautifully surreal... the effect !

Great film

Yeah, well, Miuccia Prada thinks a lot of things. She also happens to be a self-proclaimed communist who peddles prohibitively expensive bags to russian prostitutes and puts badger-faced fashion editors in cocktail dresses.
Something tells me the woman isn't necessarily the best authority on politics. Why would she be? Aside from exhibiting severe intellectual confusion, she's a dressmaker who can't even sew for Christ sake.

Apropos of the whole film, thank God, it was the best, most interesting and most glamorous of the whole project hands down! If anything, it reassured me that the fashion industry isn't completely populated by delusionoids - there are plenty of people out there who know exactly what fashion is and, more importantly, what it isn't. Bravo to all those who look fashion in the face and who have enough common sense and humility to understand where it fits in with our lives. Unlike certain dangerous minds (you know who you are...) who try to naively promote its propagandistic power and pull one over on us.

And on that note:

"Fashion is allowed a creative space in which it can enjoy a free quotation of visual references. This is what makes fashion stimulating - it can use ‘controversial’ imagery to create an exciting, sensational effect that feels contemporary and arresting – think of the way you felt when you first saw the Bennetton campaign with the gay guy dying of AIDS or the ‘shocking’ heroin chic look of the CK ads. Fashion has license to use these elements in order to create exciting sensations to sell clothes. Now, I’m totally okay with this; I think it’s harmless provocation on a fun, superficial level. But that, I’m afraid, is all there is to it.

I am not saying that fashion creatives should be forbidden from using ‘political’ imagery. On the contrary, I think that fashion creatives can use whichever imagery they want in order to get the reaction they are looking for. However, to claim that fashion itself is ‘political’ on the grounds that it appropriates a provocative slogan or a controversial image is deeply foolish. Fashion will never be political because fashion does not have any points to make. Fashion is ideologically castrated, it is decorative, the eunuch of the visual arts. Fashion is also not Art. When fashion has been appropriated by political thinkers in the past it becomes instrumental in the creation of a fascistoid model - an order based on visual idealism. The only points that fashion makes are ones governed by fantasy, idealism and aesthetics. Period."