Pretty blue miracle: Cardi B
Everyone always talks about Queen Beyoncé at the Grammy Awards, and yes, she broke the Grammy record this year – but she really has never been well dressed in her life. As a fashion person who is becoming wiser, one is not only tempted to give in to the thought that style and fashion trends are no longer that important today.
What’s the point of the hype when big luxury monopolists contribute to the fact that the mountains of pants, shirts and dresses on the catwalk can no longer be sorted into seasons or fashion houses? Even haute couture, i.e. super-expensive tailoring, has somehow become boring because it is now often just as wearable as off-the-peg luxury textiles. At the last haute couture shows, people got really upset about a label called Schiaparelli because the designer had integrated lion and puma heads into dresses and coats. No, the shocker wasn’t the heads, they were fake, but simply the fact that it looked so brute and anything but elegant or interesting. Luckily, those responsible for Haute Couture in Paris aren’t completely stupid and invited the Indian designer Gaurav Gupta to the last shows. And then Cardi B comes to the Grammys in a dress he designed and it’s such an amazing sculpture you wonder how you ever fell in love with fashion theatre. And why everyone keeps talking about Beyoncé all the time.
Want a lollipop, Chris Martin?
This performance is funny because Chris Martin looks exactly like a comedian would dress up as Chris Martin. Or how he is imagined by all those people who cold play somehow embarrassing. In any case, one has the feeling that the Britpop operetta star has found himself in this strange outfit. Also interesting: While everyone else at the Grammy Awards dresses up in complicated ways to underline their creativity, Martin is actually almost with a shaggy beanie hat, a sweater that looks like the cover of a children’s Bible and a bright blue plastic watch the weirdest outfit succeeded. Anti-extravagance as a shock! No question, the 45-year-old has held up well and the kidscore outfit takes another ten years off his youthful face. But do you want a seasoned man and father of almost grown children to dress like any slightly spoiled Lovis or Finn in a luxury urban kindergarten? And perhaps the even more uncomfortable question: In what condition do you have to be to believe that you should appear like this as a laudator at the Grammy Awards? Because it’s just not what someone wears who doesn’t feel like going on a show. No, the message here is: I’m so deep and emo and cute, aren’t I? And unfortunately that is also the message in many coldplaysongs. Basically the same problem as with Til Schweiger – men who once profitably discovered their soft side and have been carrying it around like a hunting trophy ever since.