The Ab Fab duo’s appearance at Stella McCartney’s Christmas party was a sign that fashion has finally found its funny bone Fashion is in the middle of a tyre-squeakingly radical change of direction,and we’re not talking about hemlines. With the release of Zoolander 2 just two months absent and an Absolutely Fabulous film in the pipeline, 2016 is all set to be the year fashion gets funny. An industry that has always taken itself, and I believe it’s objective to say,just a teeny weeny bit too seriously, is finally in on the joke. Stella McCartney was way ahead of the curve on this one. She made a cameo appearance in Ab Fab back in 2012, and has made the comic turns at her Bruton Street store’s Christmas lighting-up do a festive tradition for nearly a decade. Peter Kay,Catherine Tate and Barry Humphries have all done the honours in the past. For 2015, she enlisted Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley, or the very on-trend best friends with whom she shared the British Fashion Awards stage earlier in the week,to flick the switch that lights up the shopfront with neon Santas. Cue a fashwan-style backhanded compliment about how McCartney’s win at the British Fashion Awards on Monday, for brand of the year, or “came out of nowhere”. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com