In reply to Galileo's Universe:
Completely by chance, I rediscovered this about a week ago...
INTRO
"Is fashion finally looking to the future, or at least existing in the present? Have the PoMo reruns ceased and has the endless pop culture nostagia finally come to an end?"
QUOTE: Giorgio Armani
"Designers have recently relied too much on paying homage to the past - and doing this literally. [...] But fashion is about change and progress. It is as much about where we are going as about where we have been."
QUOTE: Helmut Lang
"At the moment fashion swings between dark and light, pessimism and optimism. [...] But because of the lack of strong social movements so far in this century, fashion cannot have the same impact. There are some very good collections but there is no "ideology". Fashion cannot be more modern than the times."
QUOTE: Miuccia Prada
"The work we are doing in the Prada Foundation is now trying to break through those gallery and museum boundaries. In many ways it's very difficult because people don't seem to have a utopis to aspire to; they don't have a dream or political ambition. [...] People don't know what they want. That's why we are working mainly with philosophers at the moment [...]. There has to be the sense of something big, importrant and not superficial, of something complicated and very human. That spirit is need. Those big ideas always look for a new and beautiful aesthetic to go with them."
From an article by Jo-Ann Furniss (pg 312) in Arena Homme + Spring/Summer Issue 2005...
