Thinking Twice
February 6th, 2008 by admin
Is it weird that when tidbits such as someone’s top ten movies are revealed, you feel like you know that person just a little bit more or at least, by the sort of ’stuff’ (stuff being all that CUL-TURE garb…music, film, art, tv etc…) that person is into says something about them. When I saw the Rodarte girls, Kate and Laura Mulleavy top ten Criterion DVD selection (it is my mission to buy every Criterion DVD in sight…. thanks to Cat Party for the link ), I was intrigued that I possessed 80% of their selection and thus intrigued by their forthcoming collection. The beauty of their site at the moment with the backstage shots of their SS08 collection and that the clothes were a result of being inspired by Japanese manga/anime, only serves to make me even more curious as previously, I didn’t quite understand why there was so much hype being generated about this label. So for their AW08-9 collection, they remain inspired by Japan but moving it to a darker realm of Japanese horror/slasher movies and even as I’m typing this, it seems cliched that they should produce bloody scarlet red, white and black streaked dresses yet it doesn’t look it….
Then from bloody madness (as in literal blood, not British ranting…), the artist Eva Hesse gave birth to stringy knits that also have a dripping gorey quality about them. Yet again, beauty can be derived from the delicacy of the yarns…
Then finally, the real pretty-pretty stuff emerges with Degas-inspired ballerina dresses…
Not to be choke people with prettiness of course, the Rodarte girls have continued their obsession with spiked shoes with these even more vertigo-inducing and prickly heels by Louboutin.
How this all this assembles into one sensical collection, is a mystery to me but as I’m always ever so selective about reviewing fashion week collections unless I have seen it in person, I guess out of the gazillion of shows that have passed in the last week, this one has a lot to say for me. Nothing to do with the fact that they put Jean Cocteau’s Beauty and the Beast as their favourite Criterion movie or anything…
Source: Thinking Twice
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