Fashion tends
to be funny, ridiculous, controversial but most of all dramatic and I’m referring
not only to designs but also happenings. It may result from the pressure of
economy to sell more and more products and we all know that nothing sells
better than scandals around it. These are 5 things that make me anxious,
knowing I belong in this world.
1. To proceed with this first one, I
will ask you to reach to your memory and recall must have at least few pairs
from ages ago. I’m taking of course about infamous Lita shoes from Jeffrey
Campbell. To many owners it seems like a mistake of fashion industry, probably
due to the fact that we’ve seen it on every (and I mean every) fashion blog for
last 1,5 year and the countless copied and inspired versions of them. So to
refresh this, let’s call it iconic piece, pops from JC decided to give them new
life. In collaboration with online boutique Ashbury Skies, JC present us a capsule
collection of 3 versions of wedding Lita. Yes, if you are a bride to be and you
want to look like 16 years old fashion blogger that plans to wear cut off
shorts and torn up tee on your most important day of your life, then this is
solution for you! Litas come in 3 versatile versions: lace, velvet blue skies
and metallic laser cut.
2. Another product that makes me go „WTF?”
comes from Hermes with the title of most ridiculous pricing. We all love a good
t-shirt, those luxurious version tends to cost up to 100 – 200 $ in my opinion
still little too pricy. But amount of those zeros looks like nothing compared
to the „chiffon crocodile” Hermes t-shirt retailing for 90 000$ and yes I’ve
counted zeros right. What makes this piece of clothing so special? Surely not
encrusted diamond or gold embroidery because it’s a plain black shirt (except
for crocodile texture). Turns out it is made out of crocodile leather that was innovatively
converted to look and feel like chiffon. Well, finally someone thought of upgrading
wild wear, now Tarzan will have a place to shop.
3. Do you remember Yoko Ono’s collection for Openign Cremony?
Those gracefully placed hand prints on private parts of the body and transparent
vinyl top with decorative nipples (personally I think that when the word nipple
appear in the review it is equivalent to shitty) were wacky, hard to pull off
but surely not unoriginal. It appears that we were wrong, the Brooklyn based designer
- Haleh Nematzadeh accused OC of copying her ideas and made it viral for world
to know she was the inventor of those pieces. Being in her shoes I would not
let anyone know that this disastrous collection came from my head.
4. I’m conviced that Heidi Slimane holds a grunde for
Yves Saint Lauren. Why else would he turn YSL namesake brand into this mess? Except
for his “ill received” collections he also manage to screw up latest ad campaign
casting irrelevant celeb into the ad. Stars like Marlyn Manson, Courtney Love and
Tom Burke appeared in the camping make everyone think „what is that suppose to
be?”. Well, internet with its best humor decided to make Slimane realize his
mistake and made a well edited parody of his campaign incorporating celebrities
such as Lindsay Lohan, Charlie Sheen and starved Jared Leto. Honestly I would
not be surprised if the joke was on internet users when Slimane would cast
those people for real.
5. What Lady Gaga have in common with jeans? We did
not caught her yet wearing them but this might change with her stylist Nicola
Formichetti leaving Mugler and become creative director for Diesel. What
disturbs me the most is that with Formichetti aesthetics coming to casual wear
brand such as Diesel the results might be a disaster of weirdly deconstructed
patchwork denim. And why would Mugler let him go, he did such a good work with
rebranding Mugler and brought so much PR for the brand. Ah, the ungrateful job
of a designer.
