What do you think the future of fashion is?
In the last twenty to thirty years, "fashion" has gone from
(http://i518.photobucket.com/albums/u346/heinous_simian/lib70.jpg)
to
(http://i518.photobucket.com/albums/u346/heinous_simian/Lady_Gaga_754028a.jpg)
Silver Jumpsuits and Rocket Boots / Hover Boards, obviously.
I'm envisioning a loosening of genres. Something I like to do is mix business attire with casual wear, and I'm hearing about people emulating that all over the place. You know, double breasted tuxedo jacket with printed t-shirt, etc.
I can't wait to see the first guy wearing a suit jacket and tie with a anarchy symbol t-shirt below it.
In this age of everyone doing things "ironically", it wouldn't be that surprising if it'd already happened.
I imagine we'll see a "blurring of genre", as you say, and a certain amount of unisexual everyday casual wear.
A number of different ways to use materials we already have and some we don't yet that will make clothes easier to maintain and keep clean, especially those that respond well to even lower temperatures in washing machines.
"Retro" will as ever be a big thing, and the same sub-culture identification as we see now will continue as people try to express "individuality" and "rebellion" from the mainstream.
To be honest though, apart from the actual materials used, and discounting the lines of that dress-thing in the middle, that first photograph contains a number of clothes I've seen very recently...
I have too. But check it out: We seem to be moving away from fashions that have lasting value, and toward fashions that are flashy and interesting and possibly even 'original' (whatever that may be), but tend to become tired quite soon.
Imagine: if people started dressing like lady gaga, how soon would it become completely lame? A month, tops.
But, more and more, a month is a long time in fashion.
The fashion industry has been focused on quick gimmicks for a while now. A side effect of having no IP law in the area.
So fashion designers come out with something, and sell a bunch of it, the next year other companies have made knock offs, so fashion designers have to have something new if they want to charge high prices.
Hmm. Here's a thought. Will this constant stream of gimmicks result in a backlash? A group of "fashion neutral" people who all dress blandly and functionally as possible?
I'm seeing grey bodygloves, boots, and a few pouch pockets.
Quote from: Sigmatic on May 14, 2010, 10:36:03 PM
Hmm. Here's a thought. Will this constant stream of gimmicks result in a backlash? A group of "fashion neutral" people who all dress blandly and functionally as possible?
I'm seeing grey bodygloves, boots, and a few pouch pockets.
The Amish have been dressing like that for quite a while. Their timeless fashionlessness is supposed to separate them from the world.
The amish wear bodygloves?
Quote from: Sigmatic on May 15, 2010, 04:09:58 AM
The amish wear bodygloves?
Well have you ever looked to find out?
I'll take that as a veiled 'no'.
I have a feeling it won't be long before this topic is shrouded in puns. :x
In srsness, I think it's an important to distinguish between Fashion with a capital F and fashion as in what people wear everyday. For example, the very vast majority of people aren't zipping up their bubble suits and coaxing their hair into surreal geometries before they go to work; they're putting on the usual jeans + t-shirt, dress shirt + khakis, skirt + blouse. I don't think things have changed so much in the last 50 years or so, and some things will be in style for a long time coming.
I'm more interested in the people's fashion. What a vanishingly small portion of an industry does for attention does not strike me as "fashion". The Lady Gaga pic was used because, well, people like it (Whether or not they can afford it).
The other day I saw a girl wearing a spaghetti string bikini over her shirt, apropos of nothing. I thought it was oddly cute/hot. That's fashion.
NANOTUBES.
CHECK IT. MY OVERALLS JUST TURNED INTO A PINSTRIPE SUIT.
And fabric that behaves like an LCD.
Quote from: Sigmatic on May 14, 2010, 10:36:03 PM
Hmm. Here's a thought. Will this constant stream of gimmicks result in a backlash? A group of "fashion neutral" people who all dress blandly and functionally as possible?
I'm seeing grey bodygloves, boots, and a few pouch pockets.
I don't think there is such thing as "fashion neutral."
I used to think so and tried to be fashion neutral, but the best you can do is just not give a fuck.
No matter what you wear, it suggests something about you.
I see what you mean. Since high school I've been dressing with the intention of being judged a certain way.
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Quote from: Ne+@uNGr0+ on May 15, 2010, 05:39:31 AM
NANOTUBES.
CHECK IT. MY OVERALLS JUST TURNED INTO A PINSTRIPE SUIT.
And fabric that behaves like an LCD.
I think nano-clothes are not going to be out any time soon.
Other eletronic clothes, maybe.
For example this stuff:
http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-apparel/interactive/
Geeky at the moment, but give it 10 years, and you'll have people wearing shirts connected up to their iPhones and the like.
or katy perry's light up dress
(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/05/04/article-1271640-096ADF5C000005DC-398_634x542.jpg)
I frankly don't care as long as it stops looking like the 80s warmed over.
But that is what the future looks like. They just didn't have powerful enough lasers to back it up.
Quote from: Requia ☣ on May 14, 2010, 10:11:46 PM
I can't wait to see the first guy wearing a suit jacket and tie with a anarchy symbol t-shirt below it.
That sounds like my style. The only problem with T-shirt + tie is that since t-shirt's don't have collars tying the tie is kind of a pain.
At the HOPE conference a few years ago, I heard a talk by a guy who was designing his own biofeedback gear. He had a had which lit up different colored LEDs when certain parts of his brain were active.
"Is that useful for anything?"
"Mainly just picking up chicks."
well I guess that's why we have fashion, no?
He also had a little scrolling LED marquee pinned to his shirt. I'm pretty sure you can get those for under 10 bucks now.
New types of textiles could potentially create new waves in fashion, but how can we ever top POLYESTER?
If we want a clue as to what direction it's going, we can take a peek at futurism and music videos. Fashion right now totally looks like our conception of the future 15 years ago. In the 90s I recall we thought of the future as being sort of white and clean and everybody wears giant sunglasses. And that look definitely exists in the streets of new york right now.
Point. So is Gaga-esque stuff going to be normal in a decade?
Like in Bad Romance. The guy with the cyborg jaw. He looked like a bit of a tool, but the effect was still kind of cool. I could totally see people wearing bits of faux-armor that make body parts look mechanical. There have been stupider fads.
Hello, future? Is it possible to order a pizza using my sunglasses yet?
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Hmm...
Strange times.
futuristic music videos:
http://www.doedeereblogazine.com/articles/best-worst-of-futuristic-videos
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maybe not perfect predictions of future fashion, but we can definitely see some themes
(http://img60.imageshack.us/img60/569/dudemeet020nc.jpg)?
It's been a while since I've seen something that made me want to try and beat up 14 people at once. :lulz: