New York Fashion Week Spring 2007 :: Elisa Jimenez and the Hungerworld featuring Elisa Jimenez and the Hungerworld
Similarly, the tango and modern dance pieces were choreographed around the unique space: its staircases and odd angles, its curves and limbs. Jimenez is about art, not fashion. It's about hands, not machine. It's about going with the grain of the body rather than against. But in the war of 'What Came First, the Art or the Fashion?' it's hard for the art to win over New York Fashion Week. New York Fashion Week is about socialites and department stores, and though the EJ show was a conceptual work of art about preserving what is already present, whether it be the body or the art, New York Fashion Week usually puts up a pretty damn good fight. [Xenia Viray] more...