Is Fashion, the reign of appearances for you?
I don’t have anything against fashion. It can be the expression of freedom and a way of liberation. It’s the case for instance of Coco Chanel who single handedly revolutionized conventions.
Of course, there are some tendencies that don’t really convince and can be quite alienating.
It’s always a question of perspective.
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my grandmother was a fashion designer in cashmere knitwear [including for celebrities in her time..1940s+]
and I really saw that fashion was about wearing well-tailored [ie: well fitting] clothes and feeling comfortable..
it's when we all have to start wearing spots or the season's colours that I begin to get suspicious ;o))
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4SLSlSmW74
Marilyn Monroe singing ‘Happy Birthday’ to President John F. Kennedy. After the zenith came the nadir.
Dear Carolena clothes is a way to show our inner personality. It is for me a way of playing our different roles in life.. I like fashion and my daughters criticize me for that, but since I am just a house-wife I do what I like. No profession to put me into patterns.. I believe, the human body is beautiful without the masks, but then everybody looks at others in his own way and vibration.
Everything is in the eyes of the .. beholder! Beauty is like art. Who does not admire Aphrodite of Botticelli? But not everyone can appreciate it.
LOVE,
Thelma.
Thanks Emma ;o)
Thank you Thelma, perhaps you are right, but what I believe was her tragedy was her addiction to cocaine.
I Was kidding about going naked! I like fashion mostly for comfort. I like to dress up depending on my mood. I usually like wearing hippie/ Athena type clothing. Although I do like dressing up in fashionable clothing for the right occasion and the stage.
Thank you dear Thelma.
with love.
Мода – игра, в которой люди ищут себе подобных. В ней нет ни чего опасного. Максимум, что с ней могут сделать, так использовать как орудие. У каждого человека своя голова на плечах и он несет в себе право выбора. Кто-то сам становится марионеткой, кто-то становится кукловодом, а кто-то зрителем или критиком.
We can experience the healing power of color with fashion.
Natural fibers give us a close connection to Earth,allowing us to absorb more negative ions than otherwise.
Many 1,000s of beings are involved in producing just one cotton shirt:
Living creatures in drop of rain.
Birds who fly across sky through the rain.
The soil has countless life forms.
Many 1,000s of People are closely involved in this one shirt by planting,harvesting,shipping,designing,dying,sewing,ironing,packing,trucking,selling,photographing,stocking,
buying,wearing,cleaning.Each step involves so many living creatures:When a delivery truck is on the road,how many insects fly into wind shield and die? When the driver makes eye contact with a driver in a car,how does this affect the rest of the world?
Each person’s own world includes 1,000s of other people, whose thoughts are there for the creation of the shirt.They listen to music created by the thoughts and actions of musicians whose music involves 1,000s of people just to create it.It is an endless , endless revolving exchanging and connecting with our fellow Earth beings, whether human,insect,bacteria,animal,etc.
I respect mending and recycling efforts that people have been making for centuries: Japanese fishermen wore clothing that was mended over and over..Quilters kept their families warm by cutting up old clothes and sewing them into one big piece.We now hang those simple pieces in our museums, galleries and white walls of our homes.
I wonder if one shirt alone could represent the sign of infinity?Could one shirt alone help us to connect with others enough to walk as gently on Mother Earth’s back as possible?
Dear Carolena, do you remember what Marilyn Monroe said when she was asked what she wears when she sleeps?? She said: Just my .. Chanel NO.5!! At that time it was very.. daring. That’s why maybe she was in the dreams of most men in her era. The ultimate sex symbol and such a tragic fate.
LOVE,
Thelma.
So much talk about fashion… Fashion is great! a lot of fun, but for me not so important, or such an issue. Sometimes even just a silly superficial past time… But that can be a good thing too. We have to amuse ourselves somehow!
For me, the perfume and shoes do it! Give me a pair of sexy shoes, and one of my favorite perfumes or colognes, and I’ll even go naked
;)
In front of God we will have to appear with our naked souls…As Mr Paulo also has said several times…it’s all Vanity…Although for generations, the women in my family have had an almost obsession with clothes and fashion. Putting outfits together is my playtime, I forget all about worries and it stresses me down. Good excuse for going shopping? :)
hi paulo,
i just finished reading ‘eleven minutes’. u mentioned smthn about the big screen that how a movie ends and then we dont care to imagine what would happen to their life after the movie ends…..well i m trapped into similar imaginations after reading your novel…..i cannot help thinking that what happened to maria and ralf after ur novel ends….eternal love ? or cud there be another twist in their love ? in short i want to know about the eternity of love ? is there something like eternal love?
Ah ben dis donc mon Coco,.. j’allais presque oublier, elle s’est mise au parfum egalement le No.5 avec “Escale a Portofino” “J’adore”.
Beijos pour Coco et Paulo.
fashion is an interesting vanity the models way is not for real people its for the size 0 anorexic ones…..
i love to get dressed nice and with the actual fashion but its my way – size 10, 12 and then i see what look good on me fashion wise,,,and i feel good when i get dressed with nice clothing- y not???
….she certainly knew a thing or two about Channel ing.
:)
Moda não é o reino das aparências e, sim, faz parte do reino das aparências.
Por quê? Porque o mundo eletromagnético em que vivemos (já afirmava Eistein que vivemos num oceano eletromagnético), é simbolismo puro. A matéria é um ser simbólico, APARENTE, que está fora do seu verdadeiro estado natural e, por isso, se transforma: tudo e todos estão em constante transformação: estamos de passagem em um mundo irreal, um mundo deformado e degenerado do seu verdadeiro natural de ser. Então, tudo é APARENTE neste mundo em que vivemos.
“Aparência é julgar e pensar que está certo e não estar. É pensar que vai bem e não vai. É pensar que tudo vai dar certo e não dá: porque aparências não são verdades. E desta forma, tinha que se multiplicar o desmoronamento de tudo, por tudo ser APARÊNCIAS e aparências não são verdades. Quiseram fazer das aparências a verdade e, por aparências não serem verdades, vindo, então, a nulidade de tudo. E por vir a nulidade de tudo, o mal por si mesmo se destrói. Quem pensava que ia muito bem, aparentemente, hoje vendo o quanto se iludiu e se traiu com as aparências. E por tudo ser aparência, é que tudo se transforma.” (RACIONAL SUPERIOR, Universo em Desencanto, 18º vol. da Réplica, página 45).
Aqui fica o convite para assistirem ao vídeo “AS APARÊNCIAS” no canal nalub7 no Youtube.
Nos momentos difíceis pelos quais passamos, urge que passemos a nos conhecer verdadeiramente e à natureza que nos rege e nos comanda, pois a falta desse conhecimento é que tem levado toda a humanidade a viver num vale de lágrimas e sofrimentos, pois quem sabe, não sofre. E o sofrimento no mundo é prova patente de que ninguém nada sabe de verdade, razão pela qual há milhões de milênios todos procuram acertar e os desacertos sempre em ordem do dia a se multiplicarem, pois se acertassem não haveria sofrimento. O certo está em harmonia perfeita com as leis naturais da natureza, portanto, sem conhecê-las e sem colocá-las em prática, não há possibilidade de paz, amor e fraternidade, porque fora dessas leis somente regem as aparências, com seus mecanismos sutis de destruição do SER, dentre eles: os sonhos, as ilusões, as fantasias, os preconceitos, a ambição, a ganância, a inveja, o ciúme, a soberbia, a indolência, a vingança etc. e que tudo isso são energias, são vidas negativas que têm conduzido o animal Racional a destruição de si mesmo. São os verdadeiros donos das aparências.
Esse é um assunto emocionante, vastíssimo e que cada um precisa e necessita procurar, por si mesmo, conhecer, estudar, refletir sobre ele e colocar em prática, para o seu próprio bem, antes que seja tarde demais.
Saúde e sossego para todos! SALVE!
For those who do not understand the Portuguese translation of this is the you tube video that I made, “the eternal contradiction” of Carlos Drummond de Andrade.
Eu, etiqueta
Em minha calça está grudado um nome
que não é meu de batismo ou de cartório
um nome… estranho
Meu blusão traz lembrete de bebida
que jamais pus na boca, nesta vida.
Em minha camiseta, a marca do cigarro
que não fumo, até hoje não fumei.
Minha meias falam de produto
que nunca experimentei
mas são comunicados a meus pés.
Meu tênis é proclama colorido
de alguma coisa não provada
por este provador de longa idade.
Meu lenço, meu relógio, meu chaveiro
minha gravata e cinto e escova e pente
meu copo, minha xícara
minha toalha de banho e sabonete
meu isso, meu aquilo,
desde a cabeça aos bicos dos meus sapatos,
são mensagens,
letras falantes,
gritos visuais,
ordens de uso, abuso, reincindência,
costume, hábito, premência,
indispensabilidade
e fazem de mim homem-anúncio itinerante
escravo da matéria anunciada.
Estou, estou na moda.
É doce estar na moda, ainda que a moda
seja negar minha identidade,
trocá-la por mil, açambarcando
todas as marca registradas,
todos os logotipos de mercado.
Com que inocência demito-me de ser
eu que era antes e me sabia tão diverso de outros, tão mim-mesmo,
ser pensante, sentinte e solidário
com outros seres diversos e conscientes
de sua humana ,invencível condição.
Agora sou anúncio,
ora vulgar, ora bizarro,
em língua nacional ou em qualquer língua
(qualquer principalmente).
E nisto me comprazo, tiro glória
da minha anulação.
Não sou – vê lá – anúncio contratado.
Eu que minuciosamente pago
para anunciar, para vender
em bares festas praias pérgulas piscinas,
e bem à vista exibo esta etiqueta
global no corpo que desiste
de ser veste e sandália de uma essência
tão viva, independente,
que moda ou suborno alguma compromete.
Onde terei jogado fora
meu gosto e capacidade de escolher,
minhas idiossincrasias tão pessoais,
tão minhas que no rosto se espelhavam
e cada gesto, cada olhar,
cada vinco da roupa
resumia uma estética?
Hoje sou costurado, sou tecido,
sou gravado de forma universal,
saio da estamparia, não de casa,
da vitrine me tiram recolocam,
objeto pulsante mas objeto
que se oferece como signo de outros
objetos estáticos, tarifados.
Por me ostentar assim, tão orgulhoso
de não ser eu, mas artigo industrial,
peço que meu nome retifiquem.
Já não me convém o título de homem,
meu novo nome é coisa.
Eu sou a coisa, coisamente.
Carlos Drummond de Andrade
Eu, etiqueta
Em minha calça está grudado um nome
que não é meu de batismo ou de cartório
um nome… estranho
Meu blusão traz lembrete de bebida
que jamais pus na boca, nesta vida.
Em minha camiseta, a marca do cigarro
que não fumo, até hoje não fumei.
Minha meias falam de produto
que nunca experimentei
mas são comunicados a meus pés.
Meu tênis é proclama colorido
de alguma coisa não provada
por este provador de longa idade.
Meu lenço, meu relógio, meu chaveiro
minha gravata e cinto e escova e pente
meu copo, minha xícara
minha toalha de banho e sabonete
meu isso, meu aquilo,
desde a cabeça aos bicos dos meus sapatos,
são mensagens,
letras falantes,
gritos visuais,
ordens de uso, abuso, reincindência,
costume, hábito, premência,
indispensabilidade
e fazem de mim homem-anúncio itinerante
escravo da matéria anunciada.
Estou, estou na moda.
É doce estar na moda, ainda que a moda
seja negar minha identidade,
trocá-la por mil, açambarcando
todas as marca registradas,
todos os logotipos de mercado.
Com que inocência demito-me de ser
eu que era antes e me sabia tão diverso de outros, tão mim-mesmo,
ser pensante, sentinte e solidário
com outros seres diversos e conscientes
de sua humana ,invencível condição.
Agora sou anúncio,
ora vulgar, ora bizarro,
em língua nacional ou em qualquer língua
(qualquer principalmente).
E nisto me comprazo, tiro glória
da minha anulação.
Não sou – vê lá – anúncio contratado.
Eu que minuciosamente pago
para anunciar, para vender
em bares festas praias pérgulas piscinas,
e bem à vista exibo esta etiqueta
global no corpo que desiste
de ser veste e sandália de uma essência
tão viva, independente,
que moda ou suborno alguma compromete.
Onde terei jogado fora
meu gosto e capacidade de escolher,
minhas idiossincrasias tão pessoais,
tão minhas que no rosto se espelhavam
e cada gesto, cada olhar,
cada vinco da roupa
resumia uma estética?
Hoje sou costurado, sou tecido,
sou gravado de forma universal,
saio da estamparia, não de casa,
da vitrine me tiram recolocam,
objeto pulsante mas objeto
que se oferece como signo de outros
objetos estáticos, tarifados.
Por me ostentar assim, tão orgulhoso
de não ser eu, mas artigo industrial,
peço que meu nome retifiquem.
Já não me convém o título de homem,
meu novo nome é coisa.
Eu sou a coisa, coisamente.
Carlos Drummond de Andrade
I, label
My pants is stuck in a name
which is not of my baptism or office
a strange name …
My jacket brings reminder of drink
who ever put in your mouth, in this life.
In my shirt, the brand of cigarette
not smoking, not until now have.
I speak half of product
who never experienced
but are reported to my feet.
My tennis is proclaiming color
something not proved
by this taster of long age.
My scarf, my watch, my locksmith
my tie and belt and brush and comb
my cup, my cup
my bath towel and soap
my this, my that,
from the nozzles of the head to my shoes,
are messages,
letters speakers,
visual screams,
order of use, abuse, reincindência,
custom, habit, need,
indispensability
and make me man-traveling ad
slave of the matter announced.
I am, I’m in fashion.
It is sweet to be in fashion, though the fashion
to deny my identity,
change it for a thousand, grasper
All trademarks,
All logos market.
With that innocent me to quit
I was before and I knew so different from other so-even me,
be thinking, sentinte and solidarity
with various other beings and conscious
of its human, invincible condition.
Now I notice,
sometimes vulgar, sometimes bizarre,
in national language or any language
(any mainly).
And it pleased me, shooting glory
of my cancellation.
I am not – you see there – hired ad.
I thoroughly paid
to advertise, to sell
parties in bars beaches pergola pools,
and to view and show this label
the global body that gives
to be wearing sandals and a heart
so alive, independent,
fashion that any bribe or commits.
Where have played out
my taste and ability to choose,
so my personal idiosyncrasies,
so that the face is my mirror
and every gesture, every look,
each fold of clothing
summarizing an aesthetic?
Today I stitched, I tissue,
I recorded on a universal,
get out of printing, no home,
I take the window back,
pulsed object but object
that is offered as a sign of other
static objects, priced.
Why I have so, so proud
it is not me, but Article industrial,
I ask that my name retifiquem.
I no longer be the title of man,
my new name is something.
I am the thing, thing.
Carlos Drummond de Andrade
Chere Maitre,
La mode a une telle importance et fais bouger des fortunes et fortunes dans le monde. Je ne suis pas fan légitime du suivi radical de la mode, si vous n’en avez pas un sac, ou un pantalon de telle marque vous n’étiez personne dans la vie. Au contraire je pense qu’on doit toujours garder notre personnalité, et ne pas laisser qui les étiquètes ont plus de valeur que nos principes de base. Ce que concerne bien le contenu de « The winner stands alone » je ne me laisse pas amener par ces types des valeurs, car a mon avis c’est même surréel de laisser ce type d’illusion et pouvoir nos monter la tête. Je respect ceux qui sont les suiveurs fideles de la mode, mais je n’admire pas les gens qui peuvent respecter les autres seulement pour ceux qu’ils ont, comment ils s’habillent, etc.
Je suis devenu fan de Coco Chanel, après avoir vu cette semaine son film « Coco avant chanel », par sa personnalité, et comment elle ne se laisse pas amener par la masse, comment elle était persistante a ses principes, même si la masse était complètement dans le sens contraire. J’aime bien sa force de croire en ses valeurs qui étaient basées sur ces principes. Même si elle est devenue une styliste très célèbre, ses idées sont toujours parties des valeurs essentielles de la vie, l’élégance du non artificielle, combien avant l’importance qui une femme soit belle et qu’elle se montre, pas par ses vêtements la « superclasse » dont elle appartient, l’importance prioritaire c’était qui cette femme se sentais a l’aise dans son corps (dont l’extermination du corsette en dessus les vêtements), et libre dans son esprit. Coco Chanel est une personne qui adoptais des valeurs importants en tant que créatrice pas seulement d’une nouvelle mode, mais une nouvelle style de vie, basée qui l’argent n’est pas toujours lié l’élégance, et que des fois plus l’importance de montrer combien la personne en avez par ses plumes et peines, moins élégante et moins légère elle devenait.
Même si je ne suis pas très fan de la mode,je sais admirer le travail des stylistes, et voir ce film m’ai fait devenir fan de Coco Chanel.
Encore aujourd’hui il y a ceux qui pensent qui le valeur de la personne est totalement concerné par ce qu’elle possède sois comment vêtements sois comment bien matériels en générale. Sont pas mes valeurs, et même quand j’aurai beaucoup d’argent, je vais garder mes principes de base qui pour moi ont le vrai valeur, venu des mes arrières, qu’il n’y a pas d’argent qui puisse acheter.
Vouloir confort c’est une chose bien diffèrent de vouloir se cacher dans le matériel et a mon avis les valeurs soit de Coco Chanel, sois de « the winner stands alone » sont les vrais valeurs de la vie. Plus que suivi la mode, fashion pour moi c’est d’être fidele a nos principes et valeurs dans la vie et savoir qui jamais aurai de somme d’argent capable d’acheter ça.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uw6lmx-Wmbk&feature=channel_page
Oups, j’ecris trop, je suis desolé, Maitre, je me laisse aller ici, je veux qui tu sois bien a l’aise pour refuser mes commentaires.
Mon amour, mon respect et ma gratitude.
Chere Maitre,
Fashion is so important and make fortunes and move fortunes in the world. I am not a fan of self-monitoring radical fashion, if you do not have a bag, or pants that brand person you were in life. On the contrary I think we should always keep our personality, and not let the labels that are more valuable than our basic principles. What concerns the content of “The winner stands alone” I do not bring these types of values, because I think it is surreal to leave this kind of illusion and we can mount the head. I respect those who are faithful followers of fashion, but I n’admire not people who can respect others only to those they have, how they dress, etc..
I became a fan of Coco Chanel, after watching this week’s movie “Coco avant Chanel” by his personality and how it can not be lead by weight, how it was a persistent principle, even if the mass was completely in the opposite direction. I like his strength to believe in its values, which were based on these principles. Although it has become a famous stylist, his ideas are still part of the essential values of life, not artificial elegance of how the importance that a woman is beautiful and it shows, not by his clothes the “superclass” of which it belongs, the priority was that this woman felt al’aise in his body (including the extermination of the brace in their clothes), and free in his mind. Coco Chanel is a person who adopts values important as creating not only a new mode, but a new lifestyle based that money is not always linked elegance, and that the times importance of showing how the person have his feathers and penalties, less elegant and less light it became.
Even if I’m not fan of fashion, I admire the work of stylists, and see this film made myself become a fan of Coco Chanel.
Even today there are those who think that the value of the person is totally involved in what it has to be how to be how much clothing materials in general. Are not my values, and even when I have a lot of money, I will keep my principles that I have the true value of my come back, that no money can buy.
Wanting comfort is something quite different from wanting to hide in the equipment and the values my opinion or Coco Chanel, to be “the winner stands alone” are the true values of life. More than following the fashion, fashion for me is to be faithful to our principles and values in life and who will ever sum of money can buy that.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uw6lmx-Wmbk&feature=channel_page
Oops, I write too much, I’m sorry, Master, I let go here, I want that you are well al’aise to deny my comments.
Meu amor, my respect and gratitude,
Ca
I think fashion invites people creativity and imagination. What I do not like is how people judge other people because of their fashion. It happens at a very young age. I remember buying Levi jeans, designer jacket, Polo shirt, Nike or Adidas shoes because that is what the young people were wearing at the time and I wanted to be in style.
my grandmother was a fashion designer in cashmere knitwear [including for celebrities in her time..1940s+]
and I really saw that fashion was about wearing well-tailored [ie: well fitting] clothes and feeling comfortable..
it’s when we all have to start wearing spots or the season’s colours that I begin to get suspicious ;o))
I am just on to a second reading of the book “The Alchemist”. How can one know what his\her destiny is?
Fashion… How many of the products we see presented by models can be used by a normal person ? I mean on the street, or in everyday life? Fashion is only a possibility that offers you the occasion to accept certain tendencies, or not. No one is forced to buy expensive apparel, nor extravagant clothes. Is our choice . We can take only few details and add our own imagination and go to a tailor to make a thing we like more.