The Wedding Party
Publication: Vogue US June 2009
Models: Sasha Pivovarova, Igor Vishnyakov, Sasha's family and friends
Photography: Arthur Elgort
Fashion Editor: Grace Coddington
The Wedding Party
Publication: Vogue US June 2009
Models: Sasha Pivovarova, Igor Vishnyakov, Sasha's family and friends
Photography: Arthur Elgort
Fashion Editor: Grace Coddington
I have no idea why but recently I've been inspired and have this obsession over the 90s. I don't actually remember the 90s as much as I wish I would. Living 6 years of my life in the 90s only rendered me a memory of me watching Barney and Teletubbies (and I actually thought they were nice then, but now I think that they are just jobs for pedophiles and they creep me out), crying every time whenever I had to attend nursery and eating my very first french fry.
These 90s Versace ads are so amazing- the original Supermodels. They remind me so much about the posters and calendars that every boy/teenager/men had in their room in the past, along with Farah Fawcett's calendar and Baywatch photos.
Ah....The King (The Giant) and his royal maidens (and his fairies).
Viktor & Rolf
This is better than photoshop.
Alexander McQueen Spring/Summer 94
The thing I like about me just being 15/16, is that i've no idea what happened before in the fashion world in the 60s or 40s or 80s. When designers reference their designs to some point in time, and people start to say "Oh, I thought this show was so 40s and a little bit of the 50s", truthfully I have no idea what're they talking about. The Fall'09 Alexander McQueen show was definitely one of the best shows of that season. Before I even understood the inspiration and ideas behind the McQueen show, I thought that the show was a huge feast for the eyes and was just out of this world insane. Then I started to understand and realise that Alexander was mocking fashion, specifically Dior's New Look. Instantly, the whole show just shot right past Einstein's IQ and reached the intensity level and the geniosity of the Comme des Garcons Fall 09 collection. Until today, I never knew that McQueen also recycled fabric and prints from his '94 show. It hit me hard, the idea of recycling was also an inspiration for his Fall show. How could I've not thought of that? (The recycled cans as headpieces, the recycled set, wasn't it a little tad too obvious). I guess that's the exciting part of fashion, you just never ever know when you would pick up more references. The show just keeps on getting better.
Issey Miyake Autumn/Winter 96-97
This pleated dress with the print and those colours...... are just mindblowing.
Alexander McQueen Spring Summer '99
This is just sick.. beyond sick. The mesh dress, the spirals, the inverted heel (Marc Jacobs, you're not the first). The first thing I thought, "Ooh, atoms and electrons". Oops, the geek in me just crossed over to my fashion alter ego.
I bet you are feeling what I'm feeling right now.
This post was done because I had nothing to blog about. Couture shows, I believe are like Jupiter and Mars, they are in a world and space of their own, that any of my words would probably cause craters to split on their planets. So if you're looking for any reviews on Couture shows, please take a rocketship to Cathy Horyn's blog and Suzy Menkes page. Those editors are aliens and can do pretty much whatever I can't. And did I tell you that I neeed that Philip Treacy Eyemask/Headgear for Valentino(not that I really liked the collection but the sheer blindfolds are to-die-for). Red people with red hair, that's so rad.
Gosh this is EPIC. That's Tavi, if you didn't realize that. The 13 year old who sits front rows at Couture shows.
"I was 11 at the time, before I started my blog…I’ve always loved acting, and a synagogue member was making a short film for school, and it sounded cool and I auditioned and luckily got it. Lots of fun! I miss that summer.." Tavi.
Comme des Garcons Homme Fall 2010/11
This collection is just so good. Firstly, if you thinking you're seeing another collection about armor, strength, and anything associated with the military, think again. Rei Kawakubo is one of the smartest designers out there and probably one of the few that has ever lived, and yes, she completely redefines the notion of armor in clothes in this collection. Secondly, if you're thinking you're seeing another collection with plain old tailored suits, I think you're blind.
Clothes as a protective armor, the implementation of this thought to clothes has been done by many designers and I can dare say that Miuccia Prada and Rei Kawakubo are the only two designers that can reinvent this idea and make it completely theirs. From the first few looks, the jackets and trousers were padded at places coinciding with important organs of the human body that laid beneath them. The heart, the elbows and the knees, though I seriously doubt the last two were vital organs of the body. Buckles were seen on vests under the tailored jackets; something like bulletproof vests to be more specific. That was really smart, I thought. Shorts were layered over pants, eskimo-like headgear (by the ah-mazing Stephen Jones), a big fur jacket, the sombre colours; the idea of protection was seen throughout the whole collection. The last part of the show, was a slight trip back to reality though, classic tailored suits were shown but then again, this was only applicable for the upper half of the body. As with Rei Kawakubo, nothing is complete without her whimsical twist, either the neon coloured shoes (they're so bad that they're good), or the baggy trousers.
Fashion as protection, come to think of it, that's what I really need right now. To protect against the cynical comments of others against fashion, to protect against the criticisms one may get when they say 'I'm doing fashion', to protect us from the harshness of this world. (All I want to do is get the huge bearish-fur jacket and wrap myself in it.) Rei Kawakubo is definitely no ordinary designer, she's a thinker's designer.
Prada Men's Fall 2010/11
Miuccia Prada always knows how to do a good show. From the music soundtrack (which everyone has been raving about) to the backdrop and the floor (one wall was documenting the ten turning point in the last decade-facebook, American Idol), to the clothes, the Prada show is always about the total experience.
There was a whole retro feel to the clothes, I can't pinpoint what exactly, but it could be due to the tab-front pants and the beige suiting paired with a jumper in the first part of the show. The show focused much on the playing of proportions and layering and for the first time, we actually see colour for fall and female models in a men's show (Woohoo, and fist punch. It's about time.). For the first part of the show, there was the usual tailored blazers and suits in beige, camel and navy layered with shrunken knits. Then there were belted cardigans in shades of green and blue, cropped peacoats and jackets with double collars in knits and shearling.
The middle part of the show was the completely opposite of the first. Gone were the camel and in came the colours. Pink, Yellow, Purple, Blue, Red and there were more. Camouflage prints done in a variation of colours (DUH!) and diamond checks also made an appearance on the runway. Surprisingly, it wasn't the least bit tacky. Miuccia Prada certainly knows how to challenge the mind of consumers. The end was something like a lost-and-found part of the beginning. Sumptuous leather coats in what seemed like normal colors of beige (GASP!) provided a full end to the show. Many were just left wanting for more and couldn't wait to see which prints would make it to the production line.
Alexander McQueen Fall 2010
Prints, prints, prints. On the wall, on the floor, on the clothes. Can Alexander McQueen live without prints, after all you only need to see his women's spring collections to see that he loves the coming together of different colours and patterns on his clothes. McQueen may well be a master of prints. This time round, the prints were of skeleton mosaics and others suggested exhumed bones and skulls, ink in water, burning feathers. The colours weren't as bright as previous prints employed by McQueen for his other collections. Dark, dusty and never beyond the color spectrum of brown, I had to remind myself that this was Fall (and you know how designers don't exactly use much colours for fall). However if one breaks all the prints down and see right past them, it isn't hard to realise Alexander McQueen is a master of tailoring. While the conventional tailored-to-perfection suit formed a bulk of the collection, Alexander McQueen also showed an exquisite tweed jumper with his signature skull motif, the addition of fur to the sides, wool woven suits and amazingly constructed jackets. The classic suiting was the best I've seen all week, and on top of that it wasn't exactly a very classic suit with all the prints going on.
To think that you would see skull motifs on a classic tailored suit, while still preserving the integrity of tailoring, it is no doubt a feat that only McQueen could pull off.
