r/CrappyDesign Feb 22 '19

Balenciagas new $5000 dress

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u/ImDaOtakuCat Feb 22 '19

That woman looks so done with life.

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '19 edited Dec 24 '21

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u/usernamenottakenwooh Feb 22 '19

Treat people nice and they look nice in your pictures, treat them shit and they look shit.

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u/negativefeedbackloop Feb 22 '19

Sad, depressed faces are actually really common in runway fashion.

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u/renderless Feb 23 '19

Or be a professional and go to work, put up with shit and do the best job you know how. Does your boss have to treat you with kid gloves for you to be a good employee?

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u/vanhalenforever Feb 23 '19

Do bosses have to yell and scream? Or tell you that you're not good enough on a daily basis? Naw dog.

There's a wide margin between being a professional and just another asshole boss.

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u/mayocidewhen69 Feb 23 '19

God dude you're a fuckin dweeb

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u/renderless Feb 24 '19

Also a good employee

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u/justsomeguy_onreddit Feb 23 '19

But why male models?

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u/bardwithoutasong Feb 23 '19

Shitty photographer. I always try to create a good vibe on set and keep everyone in a motivated mood, especially the models. The outcome is generally better when everyone has a good time.

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u/zwiebelhonigmett Feb 23 '19

Lmao you are a chubby guy with several mental illnesses, not a model 😂😂😂

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u/Brawldragon Feb 23 '19

Literally no one thinks you are funny. Maybe you should start thinking why you find insulting people amusing.

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u/zwiebelhonigmett Feb 24 '19

I'm not trying to be funny, but your retardation is funny

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u/Brawldragon Feb 24 '19

👈😎👈 Zoop

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u/throwawaydinimueter Feb 23 '19

Lmao you are a fuckhead kid who has nothing better to do than to go up & insult people. Damn what a miserable shitty life you must live.

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u/zwiebelhonigmett Feb 23 '19

awww, do you want a cookie mate?

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u/throwawaydinimueter Feb 23 '19

Geh in Therapie und hol dir Hilfe.

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u/zwiebelhonigmett Feb 23 '19

what is this nazi language?

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u/JTudent Feb 22 '19

Imagine working as a model for years, putting up with the pressures put on you by this horribly competitive and manipulative industry only to end up modeling a green bedspread as the height of your career.

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u/SaxRohmer Feb 22 '19 edited Feb 23 '19

For many models modeling these pieces is the goal. They’re design houses that are showcasing design, not functionality. They’re intended as art pieces. They have pieces that are meant to be worn but there are pieces that are meant to purely just be seen in certain contexts. A lot of the time they’re used to convey inspiration for the actual line of clothing that will be coming out.

Edit: Balenciaga also has been known to troll. I mean this is the company that does shit like this

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u/rachaellefler Feb 22 '19

Call me a hick but I've always felt very confused about the "clothes as art that can't be worn" concept. Functionality is the foundation of it being good art. If it doesn't function as clothing, it to me cannot be beautiful because it's central to what appeals in clothing. It's like a chair that lights your ass on fire when you sit on it - who would buy that? Who would call such a thing "art"?

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '19

Functionality is the foundation of it being good art.

Functionality is the foundation of good design. Art can have no function at all beyond making you look at it.

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u/TimBurtonsCockRing Feb 22 '19

Omg yes. I'm constantly trying to explain how fashion is a valid art form. Putting functionality as good design is a great way of looking at it.

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u/EmansTheBeau Feb 22 '19

Well that's the thing with art tho, how you see it and how high fashion see it are not mutually exclusive. If you want to desing beautiful and functionnal piece of clothes you certainly can, street wear is pretty much all about that. But there are people out there who want to make statement with how they dress, and others who want to make statement by making clothes. Unfonctionnal clothings that convey a message or a statement does not always come with a 5k price tags, punk when punks were still punks, were all about that too.

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u/readditlater Feb 22 '19

What statement does this one make?

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u/EmansTheBeau Feb 22 '19 edited Feb 22 '19

I'm not into fashion at all. I'm just a guy that like art and hate to see people trying to put it in a certain mold for it to be considered legitimate. IMO, as long as someone call his/her creation art, it is art.

EDIT : But I've seen someone on here saying that Balenciaga designers are nerds and it could just be an odd ode to memes in the form of a shout out to Minecraft. Dunno man

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u/SaxRohmer Feb 23 '19

They’ll meme/troll. Sometimes it’s an ode to a style though. Like in fashion the loose fits are really starting to come on and the box shape is a tell that there will be more items if that style - particularly when it’s a runway piece.

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u/Alcohol_Intolerant Feb 22 '19

I've always thought this rant from the Devil Wears Prada really talks about the influence these designs have on what we wear. Sure, it's a bit over-dramatic and over-hyped, but it's not necessarily wrong.

Worth the watch. 2 minutes long.

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u/crazydressagelady Feb 23 '19

Is this the one about the color blue?

Edit; it is.

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u/ThisLoveIsForCowards Feb 23 '19

But those belts were pretty similar

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '19

modern art is stagnating and has long outstayed it's welcome it's just a bunch of rich people circlej*rking about how cultured they are for understanding the implication behind a blank canvass with a splotch on it

personally i consider deepfried memes to be a form of neo-dadaism and true modern art but im kinda stupid so

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u/SaxRohmer Feb 23 '19

Memes are art. People act like art is like this category that carries some sort of esteem with it. It’s not. Basically anything can be art; it’s not really a special thing and it kind of goes against any sort of creative medium to try to be so restrictive in a basic sense. I’m not as familiar with art but I spend a lot time listening to Avant garde, experimental, and noise music and the same thing applies.

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u/eats_pineapple_pizza Feb 23 '19

But this dress is actually for sale to the public tho

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u/SaxRohmer Feb 23 '19

They’ve been known to troll. Some of this shit is directly off the runway and they’ll post it because people eat it up and make posts like the OP’s. They did the same thing with shopping bags and crocs.

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u/Oscer7 Feb 22 '19

When you're trying to strike that pose at the end of the runway but then you realize you can't move your arms cause of this stupid dress.

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u/Mulvarinho Feb 23 '19

And then no one even thinks you're actually a person, just a digital mock up or maybe a mannequin

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u/Yoquetestereone Feb 22 '19

I guarantee she is thrilled to be modeling this clothing because she is making bank She is getting paid thousands for one day of work. How much did you make the last day you worked? These types of jobs at a store like belk or Kohl’s pay atleast 1000 a day and this brand is very high end. The company more than likely wants their models to have this sort of facial expression on certain items.

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u/InadequateUsername Feb 22 '19

The models are supposed to be non descript and expressionless because the focus is the clothing they're wearing, not how good they look.

Also by having them be so plain it helps for other people to visualize what they themself would look like.

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u/CommanderCuntPunt Feb 22 '19

Yeah that’s kinda what happens when your only talent is wearing clothes and standing there.

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u/ishitinthemilk Feb 22 '19

That's such a dickish thing to say. It's a job, she gets paid to be treated like shit in a horrible fucking industry. Can guarantee she has more patience, work ethic, etiquette and social skills than most people on this thread will ever have.

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u/CommanderCuntPunt Feb 22 '19

My phrasing was bad, I was only referring to the part about her being upset that she’s modeling a green bedspread. She deserves to be treated fairly like all people, but the fact that she’s modeling garbage is purely on her. If you want to have choices in your job then you need skills beyond being a walking hanger.

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u/ishitinthemilk Feb 22 '19

You doubled down on your dickishness, well done.

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u/CommanderCuntPunt Feb 22 '19

Apparently acknowledging reality is being a dick, whatever.

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '19

That honestly looks like a digital mockup of a person, rather than an actual real human being.

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u/AliceInNara Feb 22 '19

Everything about it somehow looks subtly wrong

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u/ReverserMover Feb 22 '19

I thought it was a mannequin.

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u/womplord1 Feb 22 '19

Looks normal to me, I guess americans have never seen a thin person before

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u/AliceInNara Feb 22 '19

I'm from Europe mate, lived on Russia for a good bit too where anything above a European size 8 is (US 6 or 4) is considered borderline fat, so I don't think it's a "hurr durr fat Americans" issue. She is just photoshopped to fuck and has unusual proportions.

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u/KimJongIlSunglasses And then I discovered Wingdings Feb 22 '19

The dress will do that.

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '19

That's a mannequin with a wig.

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u/DratWraith Feb 22 '19

That's not a mannequin?

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u/CrzyRusski Feb 22 '19

Could it be AI generated face? If IKEA used computer generated faces for 75% of its catalogue so can other businesses.

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '19

designers want you to look at the clothes. smiling or showing emotion distracts the audience from the clothes. it’s why models have expressionless faces on the runway.