partially restored

 

this is Shan Yeh. seeing her on La Mode Outre has reconciled me with the site partially; it's been such a long while since a subject captured for La Mode Outre has piqued my interest. 

i particularly admired:

1. her sense of proportion - the navy cardigan over the tiered skirt (dress?) creates such an interesting block of stories, pulled off particularly well due to her slender, boyish frame.

2. her subtle socks

3. her.. carriage? if i should run into Shan Yeh on the streets, i'd make her out to be this character, unobtrusively making her way through the crowds, a quiet certainty in her gait.. an intangible commune with like-minded creatures, i should imagine.

carriage? got to ease up with the Victorian novels.

another slant

"Fashion is primitive in its insistence on exhibitionism, which withers in isolation. The catwalk fashion show with its incandescent hype is its apotheosis. A ritualized gathering of connoiseurs and the spoilt at a spotlit parade of snazzy pulchritude, it is an industrialized version of the pagan festivals of renewal - at the end of each seasonal display, a priesthood is enjoined to carry news of the omens to the masses."

Stephen Bayley "Fashion: Being and Dressing", 1991

schadenfreude

"What a fearful thing it is that any language should have a word expressive of the pleasure which  men feel at the calamities of others; for the existence of the word bears testimony to the existence of the thing. And yet in more than one (language) such a word is found... in the Greek 'epikhairekakia', in the German '-'."

Richard C. Trench "On the Study of Words", 1852