Our Olympics? The Met’s Costume Institute Gala celebrating the “Model as Muse.” And now the New York Times is getting in on our obsession, as there’s a piece in the Style section today all about the faces of fashion. Guy Trebay explores the idea of the model as the next silent film star, with their power to captivate an audience and tell a story through their poses. He traces the changes in fashion in the exhibit, from the sophisticates of the ’50s, to the hippie goddesses of the ’60s, to the supers of the ’80s, and the girls of today. Our favorite line?
“Action verbs are one of the enduring tropisms of fashion-speak and so naturally models never ‘land’ in either Vogue or our lives with a passive thump. Models are locomotives, to use an archaic Vreeland-era formulation. Models rocket. Models explode. Whether or not models are icons, they incontestably excite our attention and draw us in.”
Though we have to say, we know models are way more than the silent faces of fashion, just look at our whole site!
