When an old lady once said I was ‘away with the fairies’ with my outfit (what exactly is wrong with hanging out with fairies?), I don’t think she literally meant wearing the fairies but it seems from hard-nosed, tough-bitch looks in the winter, we are going to be escalated into la-la-land for spring summer 2008. It’s not exactly airy-fairy, full-on romance but rather it’s a slightly odd take on fantasy that works on some levels because of the shapes and fabric composition. I don’t think I could take Disneyland incarnated into a dress…
Say Bambi, unicorns, flowers and fairies and it’s all wrong in the head but to varying degrees of success, each designer has taken hold of fantasy and has firmly worked with it and oddly making it hit some contemporary notes. I’m just not sure whether I want to be away with the fairies or otherwise….
**EDIT** Giles SS08 – So in my pre-travel dazed state, I mistook the blurred print on the trenchcoat as a cute Bambi skipping along. Of course, it’s a naked image of Kate Moss and I knew she featured on the other dresses. Apologies for using the wrong images. So…bleeding Bambis and naked nymphs eh? I did say I found Bambi’s mother dying pretty horrific but a gashed Bambi on a white satin dress is just comic.
Martin Margiela SS08 – He has LITERALLY taken one of those naff fantasy posters you used to see in ¬£1 shops and printed it onto the dress. With the palette of the images and the shapes of the top and dress though, I’ll say he’s just about crossed the Dylon Image Maker line…
Dolce & Gabbana SS07 – Julian Schnabel was the influence behind the painterly creations here. When I was doing art A-level, I really let loose my painterly side and went completely mad in a Leon Kossoff way so again, this all appeals.
Prada SS08 – I won’t deny, this collection is again another grower but I do like these hand painted fairies on the Vietnamese-inspired garments. I’ve been waiting for Art Nouveau to worm it’s way back into fashion.
great post! now we see how important art actually is…and my mom told me, when I had to decide between art school and computer engineering that i would waste my life…sigh!
aah, thank God I didn’t listen to her 🙂
The blurred prints in the pictures you have shown of the Giles Deacon collection are not of Bambi, they’re of a naked woman 😀 Are the blurred bambi pictures of another of their dresses?
I laughed so hard at your comment on Margiela – so true!
Personally I would take ‘away with the fairies’ as an outfit description as a great compliment! That’s what I’m aiming for most days.
I dont mind the margiela collection, although it does slightly remind me of Ksubi’s last.
The fairies in prada are not quite doing it for me though..
Very interesting new look… I cant wait to see whats next.
The fairies are beautiful!
The blurred print is not of Bambi, but of Kate Moss. (Not sure how you didnt know that…but ok)
And if you have horrific memories, what did you feel about the prints with blood squirting out of Bambi?
I studied design in Australia with the girl who did those Fairy pictures you’ve used in the background… Was quite a shock to see them on here, the world is a small place! 🙂
love love D&G’s collection! anyhow i’m so surprised whn i saw the ao dais on prada’s runway! whoever had heard of viet inspired clothes huh?!!
love yr blog!
I love when you post some collages 😉
And all the DIY tricks of the skint fashion lover
so you see the whole vietnamese pj thing in the prada collection too!
i thought i was going crazy, trying to explain to editors and buyers who just couldn’t believe that ms. prada could just conjure such visionary day wear out of thin air…
sequin jeans on the topshop website!
Oh take me AWAY. can’t wait to get otta the box for spring,
and throw on some of my butterflies and flowers and flouncey bouncy things!