I could picture tram-loads of Gentlewomen with the same body shape, clothes, opinions and haircuts walking around the racks in a zombie like state, just tripping on all the offensive colours and price tags.
Mocking/ridiculing/imitating/skitting/mimicking/impersonating Making fun of you in any way - be it your hairstyle, weight, shape, clothes you wear, what you do, etc. Preventing you/making it difficult for you to contact and see your friends and family.
They also, generally speaking, have the bodies upon which to display this art to proper advantage, though this is a chicken-and-egg conundrum I have not yet solved (does being the right shape for clothes fuel an interest in them or does an interest in clothes fuel a desire to keep yourself the right shape for them – discuss animatedly. I would recommend, over a pie).
What sets Saunders apart from most print specialists, however, is how well the prints work with the shape of clothes.
Some, like Phoebe Philo, of Céline, or Rei Kawakubo, of Comme des Garçons, change the basic shape of clothes.
The shape their clothes made was that of something being pulled down into the earth: scoop-necked tops, pear-drop collars, flared or leg-of-mutton sleeves, and flared ankle-length skirts and trousers made of cumbersome corduroy, denim, or hessian.
"Part of what could be called eccentric is my deep involvement in the SHAPE of clothes in movement... and conviction that what is distinguished is often a high form of eroticism".
If something is an odd shape, pack clothes around it – make it a point to never pack air.
The body that shapes the clothes is robustly suggested beneath them, but the figure has an ethereality that defies the weight of paint.
Because of their banal shapes, the clothes seemed to be for someone in retreat not so much from fashion but from obvious expressions of status or sexuality.
And anyway, much of the comfort and pleasure provided depends on who is shaping the clothes being worn: that person remains Kent Lydecker, the Met's associate director for education.
