London Fashion

Ceci est un article paru dans Today, numéro 168...* Ca donne un peu la chair de poule, vous trouvez pas ? Et encore c'est que le début de l'article, lol ! Enfin à Londres, vous serez bien d'accord, on trouve de tout et du... n'importe quoi mdr :)
"It's organic," the woman says, "Sorry ?" I answer. "The dress - it's organic." This is a new concept to me. Food, if it is produced without pesticides, antibiotics and all of that, is called "organic". Britain has some of the most fanatical environmentalists in the world, of course, so I should not be surprised that they might want to wear an organic dress. I just don't see how a dress can be organic - especially when it is made of nylon, as this one appears to be.
We are in Spitalfields Market, in the East End of London, on a Friday morning. The market changes each day, and Friday is supposed to be devoted to fashion and art.
The dress we are looking at, the organic one, is frankly hideous. For one thing, it is pink. Very pink.** The kind of pink a five-year-old girl thinks looks beautiful on her Barbie doll. No sane adult would be seen dead in it unless she was going to some kind of kitsch fancy-dress party. But more extraordinary than its pinkness is its shape.
When is a dress not a dress ?
Quite simple it has no shape. The dress is just a load of pink on a hanger, vaguely held together by one or two stitches. The woman whose creation this is can see that I am not convinced.
"Organic means that I don't cut the material," she explains. "It is all still one piece of material, the same when I bought it." Ah, yes... Because to use scissors would be cruel, I suppose - we must be at some kind of Zen Buddhist extreme fashion here, where designers worry about hurting the material.
"But... you haven't finished the edges", the photographer says, looking at the frayed edges of the fabric. "It will keep fraying."***
"That doesn't matter !" she declares enthusiastically. "You can just cut it !"
This is when I decide she is mad. Of course, they say that madness and genius are never far apart in creative people, but in this case I don't think so. She is just a mad person who makes very bad dresses. But that is the great thing about London - anyone can be a clothes designer. Many of the big names in British fashion started selling their clothes on street markets. All anyone has to do is make some clothes at home, rent a stall on one of the many markets around the city, and wait for someone to bye them."
Odd, isn't it ? Lol. I'm a little shocked quand même... Y a vraiment des délurés à London !! ;)
Ciao !
*Bande de veinards, c'est en Anglais cette fois (j'ai pensé à mon correspondant américain aussi :)
**Décidément le rose n'est plus à la mode... Cod ne contredira pas, lol.
***Je vous fais un dessin, vous imaginerez vous-même l'horreur qu'est cette splendid dress !! Lol. Nan, c'est pas bien de se moquer. J'arrête...