i just love fabrics...i discovered i have a new addiction, instead of websearching on YOOX or NET-A-PORTER, i am now dividing my weekly ''routine'' into visiting the fabric stores in the city (discovered 4 great ones)...
apparently all left-over fashion fabrics from Dolce&Gabbana, Moschino, Armani are shipped to eastern europe....
This is my main source of inspiration, my starting point of whatever i am creating...
there fore i believe these pictures to be a good staring point of my Fashion Source Book, that i am going to start creating as from today within my Master Course History of 20th Century Fashion Arts. Being mainly influenced by Western European cultures, lived in Italy, France, Belgium and Holland, i now find myself living in a country where Fashion & Street Wear show an inconsistency i have never experienced before....
The local Fabric stores sell Dolce & Gabbana (notice the dots on the picture...), Versace, Dior, Armani...but when you then take a look at the people in the street...a bigger gap in style between the style of these Fashion Houses and the Ukrainian people wearing these fabrics i have not experienced before. The length of the high-heel's is approximately the same as the length of their mini-skirt, and everybody has a certain dose of ''bling bling''
I suddenly realise how Fashion and StreetWear is influenced by culture, social status and history (both social and political). I am living in a former Communist Country, with poverty and curruption all around. Electricity and tabwater are not for granted...and yet, everybody (poor to rich) is ''dressed up'', and glitters its way in the street....
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