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Letter from the Editor
Eric Hendrix
As we weave and unite the many aspects of Art, it was only natural that we turn to fashion during a month in which people throw aside their notions of appropriate apparel, beauty and tailoring for garbage sacks, pumpkins and duct tape.
What is fashion but the artistic expression of human beauty? It changes with every passing year, with every passing designer.
Fashion, though filling a necessary niche in the human requirement for protection from the elements is an anthropological creation of human ingenuity. At first, it was the clever creation of technology that allowed us to change our appearance and limitations to expand across the continents.
With the first sparks of self-awareness and beauty, early man decorated himself with paint, furs of the finest colors, hand tooled bones. Not much has changed, but society has grown, the materials have changed, and mankind still seeks beauty in function, and sacrifices function for beauty only feasible in the imagination.
Have you ever visited the historical collection of clothing at the British Museum of History? Halls upon halls are filled with the evolution of clothing design, and it gives an insight into how every society perceives itself, what its constituents hope to become, what they hope to achieve.
I suppose it is most fitting that Phoenix has begun to rise on the international radar slowly thanks to the efforts of pioneers and idealists like Angela Johnson, the founder of the Arizona Fashion Foundation and LabelHorde Magazine, and countless others who persevere in bringing beauty inspired by imagination and serving the very real human need for a tougher skin against the blistering sun.
It parallels the rise of all of the Arts here in Phoenix in a greater sense. Phoenix Art Space hopes to bring the many facets of artistic expression in all mediums and all functionalities such that they may feed from the ingenuity and awareness of all others: a lofty goal, yes, but one necessary to the elevation of Phoenix and its people in a very real sense.
And though it is late on a publication night, and I’ve perhaps had a few too many glasses of wine to keep me upbeat with such a difficult task ahead, I really do believe that an Art such as fashion, supported in its continual existence by a human need and desire for beauty and awareness can encourage people to see the artistic side of so many other parts of our world.
Thank you Fashion, thank you designers and those bold people who look in the mirror and question themselves and the possibilities of “being” far beyond what their eyes can see. Look beyond not just yourself, but the world around you, and you will see the inherent beauty and human capability through the spectacle of all Arts.
What is fashion but the artistic expression of human beauty? It changes with every passing year, with every passing designer.
Fashion, though filling a necessary niche in the human requirement for protection from the elements is an anthropological creation of human ingenuity. At first, it was the clever creation of technology that allowed us to change our appearance and limitations to expand across the continents.
With the first sparks of self-awareness and beauty, early man decorated himself with paint, furs of the finest colors, hand tooled bones. Not much has changed, but society has grown, the materials have changed, and mankind still seeks beauty in function, and sacrifices function for beauty only feasible in the imagination.
Have you ever visited the historical collection of clothing at the British Museum of History? Halls upon halls are filled with the evolution of clothing design, and it gives an insight into how every society perceives itself, what its constituents hope to become, what they hope to achieve.
I suppose it is most fitting that Phoenix has begun to rise on the international radar slowly thanks to the efforts of pioneers and idealists like Angela Johnson, the founder of the Arizona Fashion Foundation and LabelHorde Magazine, and countless others who persevere in bringing beauty inspired by imagination and serving the very real human need for a tougher skin against the blistering sun.
It parallels the rise of all of the Arts here in Phoenix in a greater sense. Phoenix Art Space hopes to bring the many facets of artistic expression in all mediums and all functionalities such that they may feed from the ingenuity and awareness of all others: a lofty goal, yes, but one necessary to the elevation of Phoenix and its people in a very real sense.
And though it is late on a publication night, and I’ve perhaps had a few too many glasses of wine to keep me upbeat with such a difficult task ahead, I really do believe that an Art such as fashion, supported in its continual existence by a human need and desire for beauty and awareness can encourage people to see the artistic side of so many other parts of our world.
Thank you Fashion, thank you designers and those bold people who look in the mirror and question themselves and the possibilities of “being” far beyond what their eyes can see. Look beyond not just yourself, but the world around you, and you will see the inherent beauty and human capability through the spectacle of all Arts.
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