Re:The Balenciaga Controversy
by stickfigure on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @12:04PM
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My takeaway is simply "this makes people want to buy clothes??"
Overall the result is comedy.
Exactly. It's honestly a funny video, insofar as it demonstrates how ridiculously divorced concept fashion is from everyday clothing.
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I watched this video and I think you've grossly overstated how disturbing it is.
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Yes. It is annoying to have my attention brought to this. What would be disturbing would be being forced to watch the entire video, as in "A Clockwork Orange":
https://www.slantmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/02/fil...).
. Luckily freedom of speech reigns so I can turn off such shite.
On the plus side, they didn't pay much for the set, a mud/coal pit of some sort.
The "theme" (insofar as anything high fashion really has a theme) seems like a mixture of grindhouse and apocalypse. "Child carrying a doll" is a borderline trope in that context: compare, for example, the first episode of The Walking Dead.
I don't know anything about the thing you haven't linked, because you haven't linked it. But the panic over this video doesn't pass the sniff test.