Sababa: The Culture of Fashion

I've never really been much for fashion. Not that I dislike it, or condescend towards those that do love it, I've just always been a "take what's comfy and clean" kind of girl. However, all of this changed when, for the first time in my life, I flipped through some runway show footage of a wonderfully talented designer by the name of Alberta Ferretti. I was immediately taken by the soft night-time hues of chiffon swimming past the models that seemed to float down the runway, weightless and beautiful. The way the designer used shape, color, texture and movement within the pieces made me appreciate fashion as an art form.

Designers put (often times) a great deal of thought and abstract meaning into a collection. Fashion is their greatest form of expression and it allows them to make a profound statement about culture masked under a beautiful, wearable work of art. We live in the dreams of these designers, who work for months on end to construct, perhaps, the most incredible lapse of ten minutes the earth has ever seen. They work to see their dreams, if even for the briefest of moments, captured and appreciated.

So, in celebration of these dreams, here's some of my favorite works of art, beginning with the one that started it all, Alberta Ferretti spring 2010.