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Monocycle with Leandra Medine

Ep 39: Doldrums at Paris Fashion Week

Monocycle with Leandra Medine

Monocycle

Arts

4.9779 Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2016

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Paris Fashion Week ended on Wednesday. I'm not entirely sure if the season felt quieter or less exciting than usual because I wasn't there, but watching it unfold on social media and through the lens of the some of the critics who I most admire made me think about a lot of stuff. Stuff like...what actually comes first? A good collection or a good review (meaning, do the writers inform how we will feel about certain clothes, or can they speak for themselves?) When the clothes are good enough to speak for themselves, do you ever feel that sense of just not...caring? What is that? Why do we feel that? What differentiates the designers who move the needle and inform the zeitgeist and those who just make really nice-looking clothes? Or are we experiencing fashion fatigue? If we are, what should we do to combat it? We are definitely undergoing some version of a revolution in fashion, so maybe we just need a more positive perspective to lead the charge. It's too soon to be so cynical, isn't it? Amelia makes a cameo in this episode and we definitely over intellectualize the whole damn thing (it's what we do!) only to arrive at the simplest question of all: Did I just not feel it because I wasn't there? Find out by listening. Related Stories: The Mind-Boggling Consistency of Chanel Sunday Paris Dispatch: Balenciaga and Céline Dispatch from Paris: Dior’s Overt Feminist Message, Saint Laurent’s Yves Is Back (But That’s About It) Fashion Bloggers Aren’t the Problem In partnership with TheRealReal. Logo by Kelly Shami - legsny.com/ Edited by Nicholas Quazzy Alexander

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0:42.3

Hi, welcome back to Monocicle, a podcast by man repeller hosted by Leander Medine.

0:48.6

It's October 7th and just two days ago Paris Fashion Week in,

0:52.9

Mm-hmm, Paris ended. Mm-hmm, mm- in, Mm-hmm, Paris ended.

0:55.0

Mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm.

1:00.0

It's the first season that I've missed in Paris in a while,

1:03.0

and I'm a little bummed about it.

1:05.0

Not necessarily because I have FOMO or I feel like I missed out,

1:10.0

because on the contrary, Paris has this way

1:13.1

of making me feel so little and unimportant. But Paris is really, really important for fashion

1:18.6

because it's supposed to be the week where all the new ideas happen and all of the intellective

1:23.9

fashion, all of the smarts, everything is just like all the guts of the industry are being oozed out from there.

1:30.3

And I feel like sometimes when people criticize New York Fashion Week, that is call it tired or stale,

1:35.3

it's because a lot of what we see in New York is regurgitation of the previous season in Paris.

1:41.3

A Celine showed a 40-something look collection on Sunday.

1:48.5

What we will see next September in New York is no question going to look like less complicated

1:55.0

and digestible versions of what we saw on the Celine runway.

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