dego, I believe those are considered by most to be fetish not avant-garde.
fetish being more sexual in nature and the definition of avant-garde is it... "represents a pushing of the boundaries of what is accepted as the norm or the status quo, primarily in the cultural realm". granted both are provocative but in a different way.
I knew as soon as I wrote it, this was going to get interesting...
I agree with you jetsetgo, in the respect that they both push the norm but the difference lies in the last two words, 'cultural realm' (more of an art venue) vs. the 'sexual realm'. its possible that I am the only one who sees those boots in this way...not the first time I see things differently.
^^^ I get totally that. I agree this is an interesting subject. I think that art can be sexually provactive though (see Louboutin's collab with David Lynch).
The shoes from the video still don't seem sexual in anyway to me. It's the venue that takes them there. It's the clubby disco and presentation that cheapens the "art" and takes them to a low disposable form. Put them on the runway, and we've got a totally different story. The other posts in this thread are definitely more sophisticated, but I think much of the way we perceive things is how it's presented. Much of the art world relies on this theory.
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