What the Rise of the Couture Body Means for Fashion by Veronique Hyland @veroniquean NYMag, 5 May 20
What the Rise of the Couture Body Means for Fashion by Veronique Hyland @veroniquean NYMag, 5 May 2015 “Skin-baring on the red carpet is now dominating even supposedly fashion-focused events like the Met Gala or the CFDA Awards. We’ve officially entered a realm that you might call post-fashion. The body is the new outfit. The gym is the new atelier. Curves and indentations that were once sculpted by corsetry, boning, panniers, strategic padding, or even, more recently, Spanx are now squarely in evidence. Where celebrities once relied on the darting hands of petits mains fitting them, designers’ clever tricks of tailoring, stylists’ concerted applications of double-stick tape, they now turn to personal trainers (and maybe, in some cases, plastic surgeons) to design their bodies. And they’re, in some sense, wearing their bodies just as much as they are wearing fashion […] Of course, bodies have always been subject to trends — look at the waifish ‘90s, or the hard-bodied Fonda '80s. But the ideal body type right now is a particularly tricky feat of engineering — simultaneously curvy and toned, voluptuous and meager — the Protestant work ethic writ onto flesh. Effortless is no longer the goal — now, a body has to look like the product of work.” -- source link
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