Fashionably Sound?

Fashion dilettantes would have probably at one point earnestly dabbled in a bit of fashion anthropology, which unearths a lot of fun juicy information, like how Coco Chanel popularised the tan in the 1960s when she accidently got sunburnt on a holiday in the Riviera. 

This week, Jonathan Glancey skims the relationship between fashion and architecture accompanied by a picture of Zaha Hadid dressed like Big Bird, who really wants to be an ostrich, in mourning. He draws very interesting, but obvious parallels between the evolution of architecture and fashion. What is interesting is that the past 10 years or so have been architectually very important years for us, with countries out-racing each other to build the world's tallest building, Gehry's Disney Concert Hall, Koolhaas' Dubai Death Star & CCTV building. Yet much of that have not translated into fashion, with much of it focusing on either the far flung future (Balenciaga SS07) or rehashing the past (every Ralph Lauren collection. Puke) But what about the present? What it reiterates is the cyclical nature of art, fashion & culture - when innovation trumps invention, and when ideas run dry, the look into the ARCHIVES. But when ideas run dry, cross-dissemination of ideas happen, which is always exciting. (Remember Cy Twombly on Proenza Schuler?)

Now, Piss Christ pendant anyonre?