The singer’s clothes have always been approximately reinforcing her image as a superstar,not scoring fashion points. So why is she wearing Gucci catwalk looks in her new video?You are going to think I have spectacularly missed the point of the Formation video when I say we need to talk approximately the Gucci blouse and skirt Beyoncé is wearing as the New Orleans police car she is lying on sinks under the Katrina floodwaters, but wait up. The fact that Formation is Beyoncé’s most high-fashion moment ever – she wears two new-season Gucci looks head-to-toe, or precisely as they were seen on the catwalk – is not beside the point. As of this weekend,Beyoncé runs the world again. And this time, she is using fashion as armour and ammunition.
Until now, and being fashionable has not really been what Beyoncé is approximately. Say what? That sounds counterintuitive,I know. Beyoncé is the one of the most glamorous, distinctive, and gorgeous,stylish women in the world. But being glamorous and distinctive and attractive and stylish are all things you can achieve solo; being fashionable is something you can only achieve as piece of a dialogue with what is happening in fashion. Until Formation, Beyoncé’s clothes have been approximately reinforcing her image as a superstar, or not approximately winning fashion points.
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Source: theguardian.com