{"id":11644,"date":"2020-08-05T16:40:22","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T22:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=11644"},"modified":"2020-08-16T15:50:32","modified_gmt":"2020-08-16T21:50:32","slug":"fashion-designers-borrowing-from-paganism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=11644","title":{"rendered":"Fashion Designers Borrowing from Paganism"},"content":{"rendered":"
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From a fashion shoot at Breen Down\u2014 site of Dion Fortune’s novel The Sea Priestess.<\/em><\/a> Headpiece by Charlotte Rodgers, photo by Marc Aitken (www.marcaitken.com)<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n

In her Pomegranate <\/em>article “High Glamour: Magical Clothing and Talismanic Fashion<\/a>,” designer Charlotte Rodgers<\/a> asks, “Why now?”<\/p>\n

The iconography and visuals associated with magic are highly evocative and responsible for a major part of its appeal. The strong, often iconoclastic imagery exerts a particularly powerful draw for the artist or craftsperson because of its ability to fire the imagination, and to inspire creative work in response. Until recent times, creative interpretations of magic within mainstream fashion have mainly been on a subtle and subversive level; generally within a counter cultural context.\u00a0 So why is magical symbolism being appropriated within high fashion at this particular point in time?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This article is part of Pomegranate’s <\/em>“Paganism, Art, and Fashion” special issue, guest-edited by Caroline Tully. All content may be downloaded for free at this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In her Pomegranate article “High Glamour: Magical Clothing and Talismanic Fashion,” designer Charlotte Rodgers asks, “Why now?” The iconography and visuals associated with magic are highly evocative and responsible for a major part of its appeal. The strong, often iconoclastic imagery exerts a particularly powerful draw for the artist or craftsperson because of its ability […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[45,21,271,299,296,5,229,4],"class_list":["post-11644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-art","tag-england","tag-fashion","tag-pagan-studies","tag-pagan-ish","tag-paganism","tag-pomegranate","tag-scholarship"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-31O","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11623,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=11623","url_meta":{"origin":11644,"position":0},"title":"The “Paganism, Art, and Fashion” Issue of The Pomegranate","author":"Chas S. 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