Maarten and Me: Part 3

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>> It's all too self-explanatory if you're just scrolling through the pictures as to what is the concluding part to the collaboration between Maarten van der Horst and myself for the Peroni Collaborazioni project.  The final piece  all out FRILL FLOWER POWER and once we decided on making it as big and exaggerated as possible with all the exuberance of va-va-Versace and ra-ra-Moschino of yesteryear (incidentally, vintage Versace is getting its moment in the sun of course…more about THAT later), the stuff that fuels our somehwat skewed and biased vision of Italian style, then it was down to Maarten and his magic with tulle ruffles to make this shirt dress.  Yes, it's a walking hydrangea and I'm now wondering why there aren't MORE dresses/garments that physically resemble this petal-heavy, lusciously-hued mophead flower.  The piece along with the other two stunning collaborations of Disney Roller Girl+Shaun Samson and Fashion Foie Gras+Jessica de Lotz were given their unveiling on Thursday night but I couldn't help but whisk Maarten's piece away for a few sneaky cheeky piccies. 

Despite the magnitude of the ruffle activity going on, Maarten's piece is essentially a wearable shirt dress, with buttons and everything!  You chortling at the word "wearable" and thinking that I'm a complete nut job for even attaching the word to a dress that basically is a giant walking hydrangea.  Well, I'm wondering why there aren't MORE dress specimens that resemble a flower that is so generous in petal power.  Especially when I can actually wear it, move, shake, star jump, foxtrot etc.  Just can't cook perhaps lest the nestle of ruffles catch fire.   That said, the idea of this dress being worn by a pill-popping housewife making iced cup cakes in a a Miami art deco pastel-hued kitchen definitely is the sort of imagery that the dress makes me conjure up…

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(Worn with Been by D'heygere watermelon cycling shorts and Peter Jensen wedges)

38 comments

  4. Unstoppably cool. Serious genius caliber sartorial madness is happening over here. that lavender, with that green, and the bouncy ruffles with the classic sportswear lines to anchor them…rrrrowr.

  6. Cool? LMFAO. That is the freaking ugliest thing I’ve ever seen in my life. I just unsubscribed from this blog.

  15. gorgeous! id wear it to the supermarket since i know id love to c more ppl wearing this kinda thing in daily life

  16. To me it is like the embodiment of 60’s era-Florida-subdivision-housewifery. Like you know in Edward Scissorhands, the family he lives with? That kind of place, of backyard barbecues and bright green trimmed lawns and lavender colored everything. Silly dopeness.

  24. This works. This really, really works. Congrats on your amazing collabo!

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  37. i am so glad I never saw this blog before!! Happy to not waste my time. I wonder why this is famous!

  38. This dress makes my mind giggle because it’s so wonderfully strange—I can’t help myself. It’s like WHOA RUFFLES, and then there’s the super weird open flouncey-ness about it, and as a whole it gives off a nearly Glinda the Good Witch-on-vacay effect.
    I don’t even know. It’s challenging, that’s for sure.

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