the article in this years spring issue of Dazed focuses on the "stunning high-femme looks" of the "new wave of NY designers"
Eric Schlosberg cites his base in NY as the reason he does and wears whatever he wants; "I can walk down the street in crushed velvet bell bottoms and boots that weigh more than i do, with a giant fur coat on, fake blood and a feather boa, and no one will look twice". Non conformist to expectations around appearance, shows diversity emerging -- dependant on location ? he's a designer and a creator, he isn't conforming to beauty standards for social desirability - he's expressing himself and in doing so is socially desirable to an underground audience.
Selah Marley
"I always wanted to look like something i could never be. It wasn't until i started high school that i gained the confidence to not care about the beauty standards projected by the media"
Alexandra Marzella
"to look at oneself is to discover oneself"
Dazed article speaking of her Instagram posts; "Another sees her naked and resplendent like a Renaissance nude, all milky skin and rosebud lips - an archaic male fantasy quickly shattered by her arrangement on a toilet seat" "creating confessional work that flips the mainstream narrative of twee white feminism, unrealistic beauty standards and the over-sexualisation of the female body"
-- talk about the embedded narcism within this generation; is that a reason for non conforming; or does it make it worse.. to want to reach the highest standards (By who's definition?) -- "the most narcissistic, individualistic and self-absorbed generation in recorded history."
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