When Fashion Statement Goes Environmental
When Vogue Italia launched its August issue, it has been welcomed with rather a huge criticism because of the pictures the magazine used. Read the story below.
The month of August could have been more centered on Italy for the matter as two issues in a major media outlet focus on that place. One, just this week, a debate between the national government of Italy and the local government of Florence has been brought out in the open again regarding the ownership of one of Michelangelo’s artworks. For so many years, the government of Florence has been grueling with the national authority on making David to be owned by the city as it was displayed in the museum in Florence and that the sculptor Michelangelo was born in Florence. But the issue has not yet been settled as Italy stand by the documents that says it is owned not by Florence alone but by the national government. The second issue the same way as the first one has something to do with arts. Though not as old as the first example, this second issue has solicited mixed comments and created debates. The issue was when Vogue Italia printed out in their August issue pictures of models that are artistically emblazoned with black oil and then intentionally mounted with a sea or a body of water as a background.
On August 12, 2010, Richard Quest of CNN interviewed the Franca Sozzani, the Editor in Chief of the said magazine. Quest in his usual black corporate uniforms prompted that Sozzani in the first place have already known about the outcome of the projects and the impact it would be creating and asks why she still pushed to have it done. In the conversation Sozzani indirectly admitted that she does not know what would the reactions of the people prior to the release of the project and that they have pushed for it because fashion also speaks of nature and that fashion is everywhere. Thus, she implied that when thru fashion an environmental cause is spearheaded it could possibly make a point of view.
It can be remembered that just a few months ago, America has been plagued with a devastating manmade disaster which stayed on for about 4 months and affected several marine ecology as well as different states. That disaster was when the BP oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico exploded and spilled off thousands of gallons of oil into the sea and the coast of the USA. In Quest’s interview, he expressed that some critics of the Vogue August issue said that the pictures are not about concern but about commercialization in which Vogue just used the oil spill issue to push for their own projects. A thing Sozzani dismissed to be untrue. Then she revealed that last year when they released about black models, the magazine has been branded to have released with that kind of theme because of Obama.
The men in corporate uniforms running BP has yet to comment on the Vogue August publication while Sozzani still stand by her word that their magazine issue has nothing to do with the politics or is not aimed at hurting anybody.
Fashion as we may see it may seem to be a topic of those elite, those beautiful, and the wealthy. But with Sozzani’s point of view, fashion now becomes a mirror of the society in which she can use as a tool of showing to people that the environment needs to be protected in any way possible.
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Geo’s knows that when it comes to environmental issues, all must take part. Now, he took off his corporate uniforms to join the crusade of preserving the environment thru any means.
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