Fast Forward Through Fashion

Despite my snails-pace broadband connection, a recent favourite pastime of mine after a wearying days work and one-hour train ride, is trawling through the wonder that is YouTube. My god! I really can't express my gratitude toward the genius of Chad Hurley and Steve Chen enough for creating a platform for so much time-wasting bullshit. Night after night I can stay up past my bed time cringing at the ostentatious scene-stealing antics of Prince beside fellow coloured-musical-prodigy contemporaries Michael Jackson and James Brown, while "ROFLMFAO" at Mr T's 80's-era fashion tips over a booming synth-hip hop soundtrack. The nature of this site, in its allowal of personal expressive freedom (to a certain extent. I'd actually like to see more obscenity. You know, more tits, some hardcore cursing, a bit of anal sex.), permits a touchingly strong human element, whereby a particularly eloquent woman offers an informed opinion in her Fat Rant, or quality glimpses of the formerly esoteric realm of high-culture, as covered by NY Times. There are plenty of fashion-related clips available, namely segments of catwalk shows, however I recently discovered a highly entertaining and unusual clip tracing the history of fashion in under 5 minutes:



Originally a sequence from a 1986 Mode en France documentary, with a stunning soundtrack by Serge Gainsbourg, it is unfortunately narrated almost entirely in French, however, imagine my delight when I realised it was posted by Susie Bubble, of Style Bubble fame! I'm a bit of a fan of hers, really.