
I flew back from London this weekend and, at the airport, picked up the new issue of the U.K. magazine
Dazed and Confused. It's typically full of interesting and very of-the-moment stuff, including a piece about photographer Nick Knight and his
Showstudio, a website intending to bring the "'tech hippie' world of the internet into fashion," according to the magazine's Lauren Cochrane.
Through December Showstudio is presenting on its site
"Moving Fashion," a commissioned series of very short films -- 30 seconds or so -- by leading names in the fashion world. The films all incorporate items from the Autumn/Winter '05/'06 collections, and the site also features a blog and forum in which the mostly fanciful and charmingly tossed-off shorts are discussed.
The shorts change each week; if you click today, you'll see films by designer John Galliano, model and White Stripe wife Karen Elson, and Kate Moss, who dances -- yes, topless -- in her film to the Ramones' "Sheena is a Punk Rocker."
And re the title of this post... hey, gimme a break. One has to boost search engine traffic somehow.
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Supermodel Kate Moss has been voted best-dressed woman by the style gurus over at Glamour Magazine. The 32-year-old anarchic socialite topped Glamour magazine’s annual style list for the third year running. Not bad for a woman recently embroiled in a very public drug abuse scandal.
Kate Moss edged Sienna Miller into second spot followed closely by Ms Beckham in third. Victoria Beckham has moved up the rankings, perhaps in part due to her new found career as a fashion designer with Rock & Republic. Nicole Richie is the year’s highest climber, up 33 places to number four, which probably says more about Paris Hilton than it does about Ms Richie. Halle Berry is fifth, followed by Charlize Theron, Jennifer Aniston, Mischa Barton, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Nicole Kidman. On the flip-side, the worst-dress woman is Celebrity Big Brother housemate Jodie Marsh, followed by Jordan, Paris Hilton and Britney Spears.
So what differentiates the best-dressed from the worst-dress? What’s the criteria for judging who dresses well as opposed to who dresses poorly? Indeed, what qualifies anyone to publish such a judgmental and ultimately utterly subjective list? Perhaps this categorising says more about our society than it does about the personalities being judged; it’s like a glamorous form of cronyism! The judges spew forth their subjective views based on personal friendships and ambitions. Indeed, how can anyone, even renowned designers, issue a truly objective list of who dresses well as opposed to who dresses poorly. The very essence of true style is indefinable and personal; there is no objective criteria it’s all utterly subjective and varies from one person to another and that’s what makes fashion and style so attractive and inspiring. Maybe the girls at Glamour Magazine might consider an in-house best and worst dressed woman — this would provide them with a deeper understanding of what it means to label other woman best and worst.
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