{"id":15242,"date":"2022-05-16T17:27:15","date_gmt":"2022-05-16T21:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=15242"},"modified":"2022-05-16T20:55:47","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T00:55:47","slug":"episode-486-charlie-porter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-486-charlie-porter","title":{"rendered":"Episode 486 – Charlie Porter"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories Show 486:
\nCharlie Porter<\/a><\/p>\n

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“For someone like Agnes Martin, she wore utilitarian garments. And those utilitarian garments became a way of actually existing, of having utility in your life. By wearing them, she could live. Functional clothing allows you to function, full stop.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>Fashion critic, journalist and author Charlie Porter<\/a> joins the show to celebrate the US publication of WHAT ARTISTS WEAR<\/a> (WW Norton). We talk about the Agnes Martin photo that inspired the book, the ways we look at artists’ clothes and what they say about our notions of art, culture, gender & society, Charlie’s history with fashion and with art, the liberating nature of writing fashion criticism, the notion of art as infiltration, his fashion-epiphany in Mexico City, and the reason he gave Picasso only one line in the book. We also get into his editor’s suggestion to emulate John Berger’s Ways of Seeing<\/a> when it came to integrating text and image, what’s REALLY going on in fashion criticism, the shift for artists’ clothing from utilitarian workwear to other garment choices as art shifted from painting and sculpture to other forms, the way jeans went from utility to luxury product and what Warhol’s preoccupation with jeans may have signaled, the first time Charlie saw someone with a tattoo of the book’s cover design, his experience donating his designer clothes to the V&A Museum, the glory of Tabboo!<\/a>, what it takes for us to get away from the fashion industry and be happy with what we wear, and more! Give it a listen!<\/a> And go read WHAT ARTISTS WEAR<\/a><\/p>\n

“Fashion is so derided and seen as frivolous and facile . . . and once I got used to that, I could write about politics, about sociology, about misogyny, about homophobia, how humans relate to each other. You can do all this work in fashion journalism, and no one knows you’re going to do it.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n