Tinker from 42nd St.
Ice cream is made
Kate Spade is played
from the ThreeAsFour brigade.
ThreeAsFour Spring 2008 collection
Free of distraction, an element of kaleidoscopic golds and cool wool white.
Mercurial drops of glass roll to the floor with a wind chime sampling.
Belts of twisted cotton matter, silver feather cutouts, canary yellow movement, haze of gold dust and pink, fractal mesh cocoons, futuristic Man Ray muse, suiting in fluid fractal leisure.
Curving seams and circular cutting techniques evolve with the designers inspiration of wind and feathers in waves of movement and constant change.
Their perfect symmetry is softened and defined, creating an elegant silhouette whilst still keeping the designers avant garde ideals intact.
Because Threeasfour live and breathe it, a wearable adaption of their art is achieved.
9/8/07- Park Avenue Armory
Detail of overhanging light source.
Golden orbs of what?
Scrying into the gilded future of feathery tressed leather legs i would imagine.
Y-3 Spring 2008 collection
9/8/07- W 22nd St, New York
As skies opened through the sheer power of Yamamoto-ism, models emerged clad in an urban skin of Y-3 and sweat.
9/7/07- Prada store Soho
Damien Hirst’s dream [or nightmare] corpse hangs overhead.
Watching us like an extortionate Father of Time with a tendency to over embellish.
A diamante wielding false prophet.
Pictures later, but…
Imagine the hottest day of the year. An artificial rain storm blankets 22nd Street pouring down from out of service weed infested rust covered elevated train tracks. Passage through which is only possible via oversized umbrella carried by headset wielding Yamamoto-ites.
Viennese Secessionists on safari, taking a break from long hours spent in the studio ornamenting tarts.
Quite worth the trek to the Park Avenue Armory for the belted vests, geometric pieced linen jackets and raw silk dyed and delicately cut to resemble exotic feathers. Birds of paradise, or a Klimt kimono sleeve. This is no ordinary American Sportswear.
XXX’s people have done such a good job promoting him as the partyboygenius that they were making calls revoking editors seats for his show due to covetous over booking.
One could consider it for a moment, but be too busy with something that is actually of interest :The words “complexity and contradiction v’s simplification or picturesqueness” and “non-straightforward architecture, a gentle manifesto.” What it means? Look it up when you get home.
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Think:
“La mariee mise a nu par ses celibataires, meme,” OR
“The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even”
Gone are the flowers, the frills, the feathery Fetherston. Instead, her girl moves like liquid mercury in the night, slinking through salons, a smoke ring permanently puffed. The ghost of Halston, she is languid and lean.
A complete 180 for Fetherston, whose Kirsten Dunst and Zoey Deschanel led fanbase might miss the original flights of fancy, but the romance is still there, of this former ex-pat who found her visions in Paris but her business - naturally - in New York.
Alexandre Herchcovitch Spring 2008 collection
Bryant Park- 9/5/07
Rich liquid swelter. 1930’s dissected tuxedo, red roses and flamenco via Valentino’s Hollywood of old.
Down the runway in silk petals, high daggered cheekbones and a sharp tounge, she is content dancing to a frenzy with the armless, motherless whores in Santa Sangre’s orgy of blood, or sitting, ankles crossed eating Bette’s truffle fries.
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