Emily Kirkpatrick (50:41)
Like a little bra top and a skirt. And I just thought that was like so cool. Anyway, this month she did a cover shoot for Vogue Portugal and in one of the images she was sitting on the roof of a home and she was wearing these two story pair of jeans that were made by fashion brand company who also like fashion brand company And I are in some like weird mental synergy. I feel like we are always in a weird lockstep. I don't know her, but I do feel like we're always kind of speaking the same language and maybe I should know her. Yeah, but she designed these two story pair of jeans for Amy to wear in the shoot. And they're just very striking, especially as a lot of what I've been talking about in the newsletter lately is Justin Bieber's pants and the inseam of his pants, which is like double the length of his actual leg. And he just wears them like totally pulled up around his ankles or like carrying them like a big ball gown skirt, which I think I've talked about in the past. Yeah, I think I've talked about his princess pants in the, in the past on this podcast. If not, I've certainly talked about it at length on YouTube and in my newsletter, so you can check that out. But yeah, so I've been thinking a lot about long pants in general and then these kind of being like the most extreme, hyperextended version of that. And then we got Chapel Roan's new music video for her song the Subway. And in that she has this like crazy long Rapunzel hair and it's like hanging out of apartment windows. It's like getting dragged down the street by a taxi via her hair. Just kind of like crazy extensions that are like unwearable and realistic in real life. And then also I'm obsessed with these Marc Jacobs shoes that they look exactly like doorstops. They're like, they're pumps, but they have like an extremely long, like maybe a foot long extended toe box that ends in kind of a flattened, a flattened square point. I've compared them to Mexican pointy shoes, which is like a cultural style of like a cowboy boot with an extremely long, like often curled up kind of toe, almost elfin. But Marc Jacobs put a couple of celebrities in these shoes for his Runway show. I think last month he had Julia Fox wearing a pair. Yeah, last month he had Julia Fox wearing a pair. He had SNL's ego wood ego Wudim wore a pair. And I was just like watching them walk up and down the stairs and them. It was like really difficult and crazy and dramatic and I just started thinking about, yeah, this, this Extension of the body and how, I don't know, it's making me. Obviously, I've talked at length about kind of all the body warping fashions we've seen this year. We started with, like, panets, and all of these trends are starting to make me see panier fashion in a totally different light. Because when I first started writing about that, specifically in my Build a Body essay, I was thinking about paniers very much in a historical context, tying them back to Dior's new look. And Dior's new look being a reference back to the Victorian period as a way of, like, basically telling women, like, get back in your cage. You know, like, lock it up. Like, World War II is over. You need to go back in the home. Men are back in power now. And so your fashion also has to be extremely restrictive and controlled because part of the problem with the new look was, like, you literally couldn't. If you drop something, you couldn't bend over and pick it up. It was like that level of kind of like, immobility. And so when this fashion first came on the scene, I was kind of thinking about it in that vein of, like, of course, with the return of Trump and like, the lack of women's rights, we're telling women, like, that the fruitful time is over. You know, like, get back in the home. Like, start cooking and cleaning again. Like, get back in your corsets and your pannier cages. But since then, I don't know, we've seen the trend kind of like morph and evolve in kind of this again, in kind of a grotesque way where first we get these extreme geometric shapes. You know, I think about Ariana Grande in that Louis Vuitton kind of yoga ball shaped skirt, or Hannah Einbender, I think, at the SAG Awards in like a very much a lampshade skirt and these kind of just big, unwieldy shapes on the red carpet. And then from there we get something even, like, more grotesque, which is, to me, Sarah Paulson at the Oscars after parties in that Marc Jacob dress that's like. I call it tumorous. It's like bulbous protrusions coming off of her body. And now here again, we're again warping the shape of the body in this unnatural way. We're extending it into something, yes, unwearable, but also occupying space in a different way. And I don't know, I've started to think about all of these garments as man spreading. And it's like women taking up space in a world where they're being told to shrink down, especially Ozempic, all of that. We're being told to minimize ourselves. And here, all this fashion is kind of maximizing our bodies.
