Folds. Since a little while I am fascinated about folds, drapery folds, and the way human bodies change through drapery. A rag is the most simple form of cloth: just a piece of fabric. This photograph published in the new issue of Volt magazine shoes in a very exemplary way the impact of clothes on the human body, their interdepency which for me is the essence of fashion.
Where does the fabric end and where does the body start? Where is the boundary? They cannot be seperated anymore, yet is the drapery transforming the body? Is it folding the women's breast and skin? Is it even deforming the harmonious body? The skin seems to fold up and to degenerate the body.
Through the veil the body even looses it's limitation against the background: where does the face end? it all seems to become one substance.
(unfortunately they didn't publish the photographer's name on their website, to find out!)
Its actually the very same motif of the veil which fascinates me in this amazing shoot with Lara Stone for French Vogue's October issue (this shoot showing a colored Lara Stone in an ethnological decor provoked a serious debate on the role and place of colored models and racism in fashion. see the video of the discussion on cnn and follow the discussion on Kristina Gisors' blog)
© by VOGUE PARIS/ Photographer: Steven Klein / Styling: Carine Roitfeld / Make-up: Stéphane Marais / Model: Lara Stone
all images via on of my favorite german blogs: coûte que coûte
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