International runways highlight fashion as art
As you know, the runways are meant to be a source of artistic expression, not just trends. And the look from catwalks around the world are more cause to stop, stare and wonder.
Even if your first thought might be, what the heck were they thinking? It’s not as far-fetched as it looks.
Inspiration is all around and it is the outlandish ideas that ultimately influence more conservative looks.
Without the outrageous tilting one end of the scale, how else would we ever strike a balance.
The communication device-inspired creation (above left) from the 2009 fall collection of Nitin Bal Chauhan of the Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week in New Delhi, India, Wednesday.
Indian fashion designer Manish Arora showcases an interesting trophy (above right) in Paris, Monday.
A look from Japanese fashion designer Toshikazu Iwaya for Iwaya For Dress 33 (at right) as part of his fall ready-to-wear collection in Paris, Thursday.
And French fashion designer Jean-Charles de Castelbajac (above left) presents a tributeto the pre-radical surgery Michael Jackson that I never would have imagined for his fall collection, Tuesday.
Somehow, it all makes harem pants a lot more palatable.
A wayward soul from Las Vegas, Nevada, who now calls St. Louis home and believes that fashion is relative and capricious, but style is always in favor. 
I have always thought that the world of “fashion” was populated by creative homosexuals that used their work as a sadistic means to mock, disgrace and disrespect the female form. This proves it.
Well said Ben, and compeltely accurate. The only art these designers are interested in is anything they can put on a rail-thin model with no womanly features…