Video: Ketchikan Clothing Festival: Alaska's Strangest Outfits
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
The words "fashion" and "Alaska" are poorly combined in our imagination: what fashion can there be in this bearish corner of the planet, in which only gold can be washed and fish can be caught? Moreover, in a shabby town with a population of 7368 people! Meanwhile, it is in such a town called Ketchikan already passed 25 times Festival Clothes - or, rather, the Festival of Apparel Art: because here only the most extravagant, unusual and simply amazing outfits are held in high esteem.
For Ketchikan fans of weird outfits, the golden age began in 1986. It was then, on the initiative of Alaska artists and designers, as well as their many creative friends from other parts of the United States, that the first Clothing Festival was held. Despite the fact that there were only eight artists participating, everyone liked the event very much, and since then it has been held in Ketchikan every year in early February.
Each of these festivals is held under the sign of some theme - for example, "Evening shift" or "Transformation". The artists, of which there are now, of course, much more than eight, throughout the year come up with unusual and pretentious outfits in order to start feverish preparations a few days before the show. Mountains of sequins, meters of various fabrics and paper, the rapacious sparkle of scissors, hundreds of ribbons and rivers of glue - this is how the workshops of the creators of crazy clothes look like at this time.
And it's worth it! When the "time of H" comes, and the models come out in all their glory to defile on the catwalk, it seems that the most Lady gaga there is something to learn from them. Of course, many modern fashion designers can also demonstrate incredible costumes in the style of "pluck your eyes" under the guise of fashionable clothes, but in Ketchikan everything is fair: no one is trying to convince the audience that, for example, a woman in a moss dress and an earthen hat is dressed in a "practical suit business woman ". No, here they are openly and openly warned: all the outfits presented at the Clothing Festival are simply insane!
"It can get chilly in the room, so dress properly!" - warns Erin hollowell, art director of the Clothes Festival program. Getting it right means in the weirdest outfit imaginable. And then look at people, remembering to show yourself, and enjoy the high art of Unusual Dress.
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