favorite designs/rodarte. spring 2010

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I’m so obsessed with this collection and these self-taught sisters!

“Kate and Laura Mulleavy have indeed crafted their own baroque dream world (cue the dry ice that created a poison mist over a runway strewn with black grit). It’s an imaginary world that’s ferocious rather than precious, not to mention ferociously influential. And with its relentless gothic overtones, it’s particularly in tune with the moment.

This collection, which married primitivism to the sisters’ ongoing interest in futurism, was one of Rodarte’s most fully realized. If the silhouettes were familiar, the awe-inspiring construction of the garments represented the apotheosis of the techniques—in knitwear, printing, draping, and pastiche—that the Mulleavys have been refining season after season. Or, as Laura put it: “We ruined everything.” In other words, they aged, painted, burned, shredded, sandpapered, and otherwise destroyed all of the materials—including grungy scraps of plaid, plastic, cheesecloth, wool cobweb, crystals, macramé, leather, and more—until they bore only traces of what they had been originally. (Even their footwear collaborator Nicholas Kirkwood’s vertiginous heels are now so extravagantly studded that they barely resemble shoes—as a couple of teetering models discovered to their peril.)

The idea that someone could ‘be scarred and still beautiful’ was the collection’s leitmotif”- Laird Borrelli-Persson

favorite designs/balmain. spring 2010

“For Spring, Decarnin brought out another whammy of a no-brainer blockbuster: disco cavewoman goes to the front. His army of sizzling, sleek-limbed supergirls strode out with huge-shouldered, metal-epauletted military tailcoats. Their T-shirts were tattered; bullet belts were slung around artfully “destroyed,” stained, and holed jeans or, yet more sensationally, minute, hypersexed, raggedy suede and leather loincloths (the term “skirt” hardly covers it). Patching together seventies M*A*S*H and early Versace chain-mailed goddess-dressing, the show moved from camouflage to sequined camouflage to patchworked gold-sequined camouflage without a flicker of irony or the slightest fear of treading on politically sensitive ground.”  –  Sarah Mower

New York Fashion Week Spring 2010 RTW

I am so impressed with New York’s Spring 2010 collections!

It seems designers succeeded in finding a strong balance between the experimental/avant garde and timeless ready-to-wear we all love.

I especially love the use of bright COLORS in textile palettes, which is of course desired for Spring’s sunlit-afternoons.

I created an overview of my favorite pieces and designers from the leaders in fashions’ showcase, right here in the one and only New York City!