FASHION IN OUR COUNTRY

Fashion is a human expression, a collective construction  that is part of the culture. From this perspective, dressing fashionably is not an individual decision, but itself is equipped with special features and emotions of each person. Argentina fashion began to be part of the global fashion calendar. In Buenos Aires, the Buenos Aires Fashion Week took place on August 6,7 and 8 in La Rural, a Palermo neighborhood. There many designers showed new trends, colors Footwear and prints of this Spring-Summer 2013-14.

The Colors of this Season are on first place, Black and White, also pastel and neutral colors like pink, yellow, peach, lavander, blue, beige,grey, nude and mink. For the day style   France blue, yellow and pink took place in this season and in the night style are colors like silver and gold. Red again has an important role. And in all the racks are going to be the floral and animal prints. The materials that are used are imprint cloth, prints, cotton, jersey, transfers, raffia, patent leather, suede leather shoes, variety and dyed cotton, washed and worn.

The trends of this season are: Softwear that is a return to childhood innocence pastels exploiting a very feminine color palette inspired by French pastries also the neutral colors. Flowers are the key element of this trend; Safari that brings elements inspired by Africa, Hopi, and ancient civilizations such as leaves, animal skins, feathers and bird bold prints for shirts, dresses, overalls, slacks, scarves, tunics and maxi skirts.The key is the mix, combining blouse and trousers or skirt with the same print in different colors, or encourage more and opt for garments with different prints; Sporty are trend sports motif logos and numbers, stripes, skirts and dresses neoprene for, hoods, tops with braces, and shorts; The last one, Experiment is the mixture of textures, fabrics and colors.

The Featured items like stilletos triangular tipped in white, black and blue france. However, flat sandals and slippers in iridescent colors are chosen for the teenagers. Also the silhouettes spacious, several sizes larger than normal, combined with a garment dominate the body to provide balance; dresses in variety of lengths, cuts ,neckline and the top or "pupera" ,again signified with oversized blazers and high-waisted pants. Other seasonal options located to jean shorts, the yarn sweater, leather jacket and skirts between their favorites. This are the trends that take center stage with the heat of summer

Maria Victoria Piantoni.

The dangers of a single story

 

THE DANGERS OF A SINGLE STORY

 According to the video we watched last week, we heard an  African women  talking of the dangers of a single stories. But...

What are the dangers of a single stories in my life?

When people read or hear an event or a story of somebody of a country, they always stay with the first thing they get to know about them they don't keep on investigating on the theme. So when they want to talk about it with some person, they only have THAT information instead of knowing different points of view or different stories.

We have single stories in our daily life. For example, some people read an article that they found in a blog in the internet of our president, and they don't know if r that happened or not really, but they start believing that  that happened and they start saying that they hate her. But, How can you say that you know her if you only read one point of view? You have to read many points of views to start opinion. So you should read the points of view of somebody that is kirchnerista and of somebody that is on the other side.

Another example it could be when we look information that the teacher ask for and we only look in one page and we don't read the other ones and also we don't know check  is that is true or not! In Wikipedia you can edit the text, and you can put an uncertain fact that is not true.

If we continue like this, I think that in some years we are going to be stupid people  and we wont like to have open talks of nothing because we love "single story's",So if we start reading and knowing more about what we are talking we are going to make a better world better people and communications.

I want to end with a phrase she said that call my attention: "The problem with stereotypes isn't they aren't true, its they are incomplete

 Maria Victoria Piantoni