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some research journal stuff from an upcoming skirt-based assignment..













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+ a fashion illustration assignment that i had to do in the attempted style of fashion illustrator
David Downton..

marketing fun facts that will interest no-one other than myself

- by 2030, Germany + Japan will have half of their population over the age of 65, while under 35s will be decreasing in numbers 2x faster than the ageing population will be increasing
- as soon as 2020, Germany will need one million migrants of working age per annum to make up their workforce
- there is a 46% divorce rate in Australia
- 50% of food in developed countries is eaten / prepared outside of the home
- Australia is the second largest cofee consuming nation (second to Italy)
- Australia has the largest population in the world of 1st and 2nd generation migrants
- 0% of a study of 928 peer reviewed science papers on global warming (mostly around the An Inconvenient Truth period) suggested any doubt global warming is occuring + the cause
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- 56% of popular press articles of the time suggested doubt about the cause of global warming
- Earth's ave. temperature is around 15 degrees Celcius - if that rises by 1 degree, 100 000s of species and most likely billions of people will not survive
- 2 degrees change would mean that a quarter of all species will become extinct, while 3 degrees difference will cause 3/5 species to become extinct
- in the past 2 decades, bushfires / wildfires worldwide have increased x20

i want to be a Roitfeld

it isn't intentional - just my taste..but i'm almost strictly a non-colour / non-prints kind of person.
but on the other hand, i've always felt that i've had a sort of calling to Tree of Life / Navajo-like mis-matching prints. certain labels like Proenza Schouler / Dries Van Noten make me gasp aloud. + for this reason, Margherita Missoni is an absolute icon for me. her ability to mix Missoni pieces with other boho-inspired + sometimes, out of context, even ill-fitting pieces blows my mind every time..





all of these images have just been sourced from various Tumblr accounts. but i've just realised that there is a plethora of more amazing style images just on Google Images, + so my search continues..

hey, Foo Fighters are still a band / hey, The Strokes are still a band

'there was a time when fashion designers feared the critics who populated the front rows of their fashion shows. a bad review could mean a collection was ignored by the fashion magazines. stores might turn elsewhere for the clothes to fill their racks next season.

newspapers and magazines sent their fashion experts around the world to critique the bi-annual ready-to-wear collections and bring back important news to discerning readers. these journalists were more than arbiters of style. they were tough critics bulldozing their way through an effete world of air kisses and crinolines. they gushed when it was deserved. they were harsh when all was not right.

that world barely exists today, says Robin Givhan, special correspondent for style and culture for Newsweek and The Daily Beast, who dared ask recently, 'Is Chanel Designer Karl Lagerfeld Spread Too Thin?'
Lagerfeld was not amused, saying dismissively that he’d never heard of her, which is strange, given that she had been on the fashion scene for years with the Detroit Free Press and more recently won a Pulitzer Prize for her work as a fashion critic at the Washington Post.
yet it’s not surprising Lagerfeld reacted as he did. designers have become accustomed to fawning coverage from the fashion press, rarely subjected to the scrutiny applied in Givhan’s article.

design houses that receive unflattering reviews can be vindictive, banning the offending journalist from their shows. this is serious. unlike movie and theatre critics, who can pay for a ticket on opening night, a fashion critic has only one chance to see a collection live.
thus, some fashion commentators have found it prudent to curry favour, soften their criticism and continue to receive their invitations to the shows.

fashion magazines, for their part, have always been in passive collusion with the fashion industry. they are notoriously submissive — unwilling to criticise because they are wed inextricably to advertising dollars.
'the rule of thumb at magazines is that if they don’t like something it will be omitted,' says Givhan. 'so it’s up to the savvy reader to see what’s missing — who didn’t get on the cover.'

bloggers are the new critics. often dazzled by celebrity culture, at best they offer snappy if uninformed commentary. mostly it comes down to stating the obvious — short hemlines, bright prints etc.
'it’s got to be more than just ‘i loved it or i hated it,’' says Givhan. 'you’ve got to explain your thinking — how you got there. criticism is not personal opinion. at its best it’s opinion based on a set of facts that are set in context. i’ve seen shows that i’ve loved but i knew that critically they were not great. and vice versa.''
- segments from 'Fashion Week: The Beleaguered Art of Fashion Criticism' by David Graham