street wear

I quite liked the work at www.style.com by Gareth Pugh. Generally, I don’t approve of the appropriation of fetish forms for high fashion. They generally don’t get it right (the current trend for high heeled boots being one rant I don’t want to get into). That said I saw this image and was taken by a number of feelings. Firstly, I quite like the juxtaposition of skin tightness and the loose baggy cloth. Secondly I like the appropriation of the fetish hood. Thinking about it I guess what I like is the image that that could be me walking down the street in that. I think I’m a little inclined to the image of being both on display and completely anonymous at the same time. Ok to be realistic I would have to wait until it was generally acceptable to wear what is effectively a heavy veil. I would like to believe that if enough people did then you could get a lot more women following.