Anastasia in Civic

Anastasia has appeared several times for Fashion in the Street, but deserves a feature on her own. Perhaps more than once...

Here she shows off several looks around Civic.

Many thanks of course to Anastasia for her lovely help.

Lots still to come from season 2. Hopefully I'll get through the backlog before season 3 begins!

Brian.

Nadine in Civic & New Acton - get well soon...

Nadine has helped several times on Fashion in the Street and is one of our contributing writers.

She is currently recovering from surgery, so I felt a little tribute might be nice to help her along and let her know we're all thinking of her and sending our best wishes...

Get well soon Nadine and we look forward to more appearances from you for Fashion in the Street.

Brian.

Comparisons – models & passers-by

As a part of my Masters Studies at the ANU School of Art I'm using aspects of Fashion in the Street to investigate new directions and ideas.

This has lead to an interesting comparison, side by side placement of images created with models next to images of passers-by.

I pose some questions at the bottom of the pairings, but include them first for your consideration...

Should these image pairs be analysed? Should I compare the similarities and contrast the differences? Point out the matching poses, or contrasting outfits? Similar shoes, or complimentary handbags?

Questions to be asked might be; Is the passer-by more “model-like” than the model? Could the model pass for a candid passer-by? Was this image posed? Did I ask this person for their photo? How did I meet them?

Perhaps it is enough to allow the viewer to consider these issues as they see them, in a context that means something to them? And, without the pretext of the surrounding circumstances, as I see the possibility that the exact circumstances of each image are not obvious to the viewer as a key issue in the question of reality verses mediated construction.

I'd be interested in your ideas...

Brian.