If I wasn't so mired in self-analysis and pity as a teenager I might have had the clever foresight to document my outfits of some important moments...first dates, first kisses, first gig etc etc. Sadly seeing as most of that happened in a bit of a unmemorable blur and sartorially speaking, involved a lot of mum's hand-me-downs and Miss Selfridge (THE shop to go to as opposed to the then-boring Topshop when I was growing up strangely enough...), perhaps I should look to Tom Scott's S/S 09 momentous outfits instead. This NY-based knitwear designer's lookbook is structured around the sentence "This is the outfit I wore..."
Granted, I've experienced very few of these moments...."I made the (cheerleading) team", "to my first anti-fur protest", "to the Patti Smith concert" but I guess it does make me wish I could have documented such similar moments. For me it would involve the day I went to an Ash gig, the day I got drunk properly the first time, the day some guy rejected me... ah, blissful moments...
Growing up rites of passage aside, Tom Scott does have an odd slightly distant take on both pieces that are knitwear and non-knitwear. His latest A/W 09 presentation was similarly stark. Rather than developing fully flowing collections, he makes individual pieces that are purposely non-cohesive and in a rather good way.
**EDIT** As a reader has pointed out, and really this was information to me seeing as the extent of my Miranda July knowledge is her film "Me And You and Everyone We Know" which I semi-loved/hated, July's recent-ish project Learning To Love You More asking people to fulfill 70 creative tasks, one of which asks you to take a picture of your significant outfit, and they have to be flatly laid out on the floor like an outfit as opposed to modelled on body - the type of images that never turn out good for my clothes given that they need some sort of a bod to make any kind of sense.
