Fashion Seminar: Bridge #3

Annotated Bibliography

 

 

Baker, Lindsay. “BBC-Culture-His or hers: Will androgynous fashion catch on?”     BBC News. Accessed April 26, 2017.

 

http://www.bbc.com/culture/sotry/20150331-womens-clothes-for-men.

The article was published in 2015, which is interesting because the topic is androgynous fashion. Thus, in this case, we know that the idea of androgynous fashion became the mainstream almost three years ago. The author talked about how the 2015 Milan fashion show was surrounding my gender-fluid fashion. I found this helpful also because it was mentioned the starts of androgynous fashion, which is back in the 1920s, when women were very gender neutral. That helped me with the history of androgynous fashion.

 

Chira, Susan. “Gender Fluidity on the Runways.” The New York Times.

February 15, 2017. Accessed April 12, 2017. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/15/fashion/gender-fluidity-new-york-fashion-week.html?_r=0

 

The New York Times has always been a reliable and credible website to look at, and this is one of the article that I found that related to my topic of androgyny and gender fluidity. As most of the designers combined their men’s and women’s collection this year in NYFW, and came up with the question of what is masculine and feminine. By showing the line together also give us the idea of gender fluidity in fashion. The author pointed out clearly that the fashion world is not as hard as it is to gender identity compare to real life. This source shows the idea of how designers have their own sensibility of fender continuum. With the theme of my topic – Androgyny, this article explained how gender fluidity has become a trend and a way of expressing fender rights to our society.

 

 

Friedman, Vanessa. “Gucci Calls for End to Separation of the Sexes on the Runway.”

The New York Times. April 05,2016. Accessed April 12, 2017.

 

This is an article that published in April 2016, with some of the statement that they claimed for 2017, its actually happening. The article basically talked about the other side of why designers are moving from two shows into one, and it’s about the business side of a fashion week. It is claimed that moving from two shows to one not only helped simplify many aspects of the business, but also making two separate, disconnected calendars to a more practical way. Having only one show for fashion week shows unisex clothing is on the rise, and at the same time, It’s obviously more efficiency in the cost of a show. The article developed my topic deeper in a way of looking at a different aspect of why this androgyny fashion and gender fluidity line is getting popular.

 

Lexxi, Davis. “H&M are changing the face of fashion with gender fluid denim line.”

H&M are changing the face of fashion with gender fluid denim line

 

Marie Claire is a well-known British Fashion magazine, the article is a little biased about how H&M being a pioneered genderless collection creator. However, I still found this source useful because it talked about H&M created this new unisex line of cloth, which was defined as typical jeans and white T-shirt. Even though the article stated that this action is another step of the brand towards gender fluidity, but I kind of disagree of how they brand this idea of unisex by having the same type of cloth for both women and men, which are those simply elements. However, what they pointed out on this unisex fashion should be inclusive and become a democratic style is the idea that I was looking for. Thus, I considered this as a helpful source of my paper.

 

Moroz, Sarah. “3 Designers on How They Define Genderless Fashion.” The Cut.          Accessed April 12, 2017. http://nymag.com/thecut/2015/06/3-designers-on-      how-they-define-unisex-fashion.html

 

This is an interview of three different designers from the showcase, I found that useful as a primary source of my research paper. The source is from “The Cut” under New York Magazine, not quite sure if it’s completely reliable or not, but the interview question that have been asked were perfectly related to my topic. The several designers and brands responded to the question of how unisex fashion means to them and what’s the best thing about making something for both gender, in this case, I will say for everyone. The idea is to see how designers reflect about the idea of unisex in fashion industry.

 

Paoletti, Jo B. Pink and blue: telling the boys from the girls in America. Place of       publication not identified: Indiana Univ Press, 2013.

 

The author of the book is an Associate Professor in the American Studies Department at the University of Maryland, and the book has been well sold, so it’s pretty much a reliable source. It is interesting the book talks about how the color pink and blue related to our gender and social choice, it claimed that the pink color is originally for boys and the blue color is meant for girls. Since in the later decades, people defined those two colors opposite from before, but it also reflects to the idea of unisex and how people started to accept pink as a general color again. It’s a history of unisex trend, the popularity rises first and dropped, then later peaking after 2000. The book inspired me with how color used to define our gender and not anymore.

 

Trebay, Guy. “Political Fashion Statements at the Men’s Wear Shows.”  The New

York Times. February 01, 2017. Accessed April 19,2017.

 

Since political issue has always been a huge problem in United States, the New York Time also focused on political statement within this year’s fashion show. After President Trump’s executive order banning the entry of citizens from seven Muslim-majority nations, designers expressed dissent in small symbolic gestures on their works. It’s related to my topic androgyny because of the it is an idea that political statement might easily change the way we dress and design, same as gender equality. The idea of gender equality started with political movement, and therefore lead to what we have in fashion that’s called unisex and androgyny fashion now.

 

Wu, Juanjuan. Chinese fashion: from Mao to now. Oxford: Berg, 2009.

 

The book was written by a Chinese author Juanjuan Wu, whom is former editor and journalist of Dadushi(Metropolis), a famous fashion magazine in Shanghai. The main theme of the book talks about how Chinese fashion has developed and evolved thorough out the last century. I found this book useful and related to my topic, one of the chapter was talking about the idea of transformation from asexual to unisex in Chinese fashion industry. I think is better to understand the idea of unisex and where does it came from in all kinds of culture.

 

Zhang Jing. “Interview: Gucci Alessandro Michele on why he has no wish to be a    celebrity.” South China Morning Post. October 24, 2015. Accessed April 21,     2017. http://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/article/1870314/       interview-guccis-alessandro-michele-why-he-has-no-wish-be.

 

This is an interview article about Alessandro Michele, the design director of Gucci. It was published by the South China Morning Post, which is a very famous newspaper publisher in Hong Kong. Throughout the interview, Michele talked about his career in Gucci, how he started this and how he feels about design. I found this article useful because some of the points that Michele pointed out is the idea of freedom in the fashion industry, which he claimed that Nobody wants rules now, especially women. And this is how Michele developed his idea and design the kind of androgyny fashion that people likes.

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