Comments on: Highland Fling http://blog.metmuseum.org/blogmode/2007/12/19/highland-fling/ Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:09:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Laura http://blog.metmuseum.org/blogmode/2007/12/19/highland-fling/#comment-4003 Laura Sun, 09 Mar 2008 20:49:02 +0000 http://blog.metmuseum.org/blogmode/2007/12/19/highland-fling/#comment-4003 I personally dont like it but more power to the people that do! Thats what the USofA is all about!(The power to speak what you think!) I personally dont like it but more power to the people that do! Thats what the USofA is all about!(The power to speak what you think!)

]]> By: Maria Eugenia http://blog.metmuseum.org/blogmode/2007/12/19/highland-fling/#comment-3807 Maria Eugenia Tue, 04 Mar 2008 15:27:11 +0000 http://blog.metmuseum.org/blogmode/2007/12/19/highland-fling/#comment-3807 the mix of textures and volume, just amazing! the mix of textures and volume, just amazing!

]]> By: younjung tina kim http://blog.metmuseum.org/blogmode/2007/12/19/highland-fling/#comment-3639 younjung tina kim Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:29:51 +0000 http://blog.metmuseum.org/blogmode/2007/12/19/highland-fling/#comment-3639 This ensemble is very interesting how the garment ran into various use of fabrics, and representing a political narrative with feminine touches to it. I guess this piece is inspired from the bustle period, the years between 1870 and 1890. By that time, the bustle had more attention to the back of the dress, however in this piece, the designer Rei Kawakubo had adopted the bustles that are mainly concentrated on the front. The dress looks very unusual and avant-garde, looking like it is a combination of ideas derived from both eastern and western ways of draping. Designers like Vivienne Westwood, and Alexander Mcqueen, for example, created designs like this piece too. This ensemble is very interesting how the garment ran into various use of fabrics, and representing a political narrative with feminine touches to it. I guess this piece is inspired from the bustle period, the years between 1870 and 1890. By that time, the bustle had more attention to the back of the dress, however in this piece, the designer Rei Kawakubo had adopted the bustles that are mainly concentrated on the front. The dress looks very unusual and avant-garde, looking like it is a combination of ideas derived from both eastern and western ways of draping. Designers like Vivienne Westwood, and Alexander Mcqueen, for example, created designs like this piece too.

]]> By: ami http://blog.metmuseum.org/blogmode/2007/12/19/highland-fling/#comment-3580 ami Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:03:49 +0000 http://blog.metmuseum.org/blogmode/2007/12/19/highland-fling/#comment-3580 omg omg omg omg I LUV THIS DRESS!!!!!!!!!!! not omg omg omg omg I LUV THIS DRESS!!!!!!!!!!! not

]]> By: ...SSSINDY* http://blog.metmuseum.org/blogmode/2007/12/19/highland-fling/#comment-2853 ...SSSINDY* Tue, 12 Feb 2008 18:42:33 +0000 http://blog.metmuseum.org/blogmode/2007/12/19/highland-fling/#comment-2853 COMPLETELY FABULOUS~!!!! COMPLETELY FABULOUS~!!!!

]]> By: Adriana L http://blog.metmuseum.org/blogmode/2007/12/19/highland-fling/#comment-2833 Adriana L Tue, 12 Feb 2008 03:11:18 +0000 http://blog.metmuseum.org/blogmode/2007/12/19/highland-fling/#comment-2833 I absolutely love this! Each individual piece of the ensemble make it overwhelming, but in a good way. If I were putting together an outfit for myself, I would never think to match up those three very different piece of fabric, designs and colors. Everything contrasts, but works together so nicely. I find it masculine and extremely feminine at the same time. Reminds me for some reason of the gown Alexander McQueen designed for Sarah Jessica Parker to wear to the Costume Institute's Ball back in 2006. Both equally fabulous! I absolutely love this! Each individual piece of the ensemble make it overwhelming, but in a good way. If I were putting together an outfit for myself, I would never think to match up those three very different piece of fabric, designs and colors. Everything contrasts, but works together so nicely. I find it masculine and extremely feminine at the same time.

Reminds me for some reason of the gown Alexander McQueen designed for Sarah Jessica Parker to wear to the Costume Institute’s Ball back in 2006. Both equally fabulous!

]]> By: lorenzia balmer http://blog.metmuseum.org/blogmode/2007/12/19/highland-fling/#comment-2712 lorenzia balmer Fri, 08 Feb 2008 21:49:51 +0000 http://blog.metmuseum.org/blogmode/2007/12/19/highland-fling/#comment-2712 this is so different. i love it this is so different. i love it

]]> By: genevieve hattenberger http://blog.metmuseum.org/blogmode/2007/12/19/highland-fling/#comment-2609 genevieve hattenberger Tue, 05 Feb 2008 06:36:06 +0000 http://blog.metmuseum.org/blogmode/2007/12/19/highland-fling/#comment-2609 It looks like there was not really a technique in the elaboration of this garment, the designer maybe took the first 2 fabrics on her way and wrapped them very quickly arround the silhouette, then came home, because it was too late and time to sleep (and certainly even didnt take a final last look...), for me this is not something a woman can wear, its more a piece of art (artists mind expression). This" ensemble" is not really one for me, the top, the skirt, the jacket have nothing in common, I just dont know why they are together...my curiosity makes that "ensemble" interesting. But when I read the punk and neo romantic influence for the creation of this garment, I understand, it s just the mixing of 2 very different styles (the puffy skirt is neo-romantic..while the colors, plaids are punk)...but still...why?!!! these sooo different ones together. If I can say that style, the colors, the plaids , the draping , remind me the style of traditional creole woman costum, then somewhere its very exotic. It looks like there was not really a technique in the elaboration of this garment, the designer maybe took the first 2 fabrics on her way and wrapped them very quickly arround the silhouette, then came home, because it was too late and time to sleep (and certainly even didnt take a final last look…), for me this is not something a woman can wear, its more a piece of art (artists mind expression). This” ensemble” is not really one for me, the top, the skirt, the jacket have nothing in common, I just dont know why they are together…my curiosity makes that “ensemble” interesting. But when I read the punk and neo romantic influence for the creation of this garment, I understand, it s just the mixing of 2 very different styles (the puffy skirt is neo-romantic..while the colors, plaids are punk)…but still…why?!!! these sooo different ones together. If I can say that style, the colors, the plaids , the draping , remind me the style of traditional creole woman costum, then somewhere its very exotic.

]]> By: Jane http://blog.metmuseum.org/blogmode/2007/12/19/highland-fling/#comment-2519 Jane Sun, 03 Feb 2008 20:56:26 +0000 http://blog.metmuseum.org/blogmode/2007/12/19/highland-fling/#comment-2519 I like how they put it together but I dont like the fabric. I like how they put it together but I dont like the fabric.

]]> By: Rachel http://blog.metmuseum.org/blogmode/2007/12/19/highland-fling/#comment-2493 Rachel Sun, 03 Feb 2008 17:49:59 +0000 http://blog.metmuseum.org/blogmode/2007/12/19/highland-fling/#comment-2493 Um... I like the plaid, but it kind of looks like it was all just thrown together. Maybe it had a little TOO much work put in to it. But it looks very cool as well and artistic. Um… I like the plaid, but it kind of looks like it was all just thrown together. Maybe it had a little TOO much work put in to it. But it looks very cool as well and artistic.

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