I'm sat listening to Lana Del Rey's new song Honeymoon with heavy-breaths because that song has cut through my heart thinking about aesthetics and jelly shoes and fashion. It's been gloomy and rainy for the last few days and I fell into a void of old films, binge watching its always sunny in Philadelphia and looking dejectedly at blank pages in my journal.
I feel like I don't really ever talk about fashion on this blog, other than awkward ootd post which I've found don't really work for me. It doesn't really make sense because I've been interested in fashion (designing and the high fashion world) since I was 13 and have loved textiles and sewing since I was a kid. I want to be a fashion designer, like not even in a dreamy 'i wish i could be a fashion designer' sense I actually really love designing and making and thinking about the deeper issues within fashion as well as the aesthetics and construction process. For interviews for fashion design courses I was given practice questions like 'where do you hope to see yourself in ten years' and my very rehearsed response was 'hopefully working in fashion, in the design process, maybe for a larger label or fashion house, not just for a company, and really starting or think about starting my own line'. I want to see my creations walk down the catwalk and I don't care if they get sold in topshop or debenhams as some uni's suggested. As cliched as it sounds, to me fashion is art and I'm not interested in making coffee table fashion (that's not a proper term), I want to make beautiful glorious things, not jokey graphic tees or floral print shift dresses.
Viktor and Rolf's Autum & Winter Haute Couture captured the statement that almost everyone in the fashion industry has been trying to communicate for years. Beautiful works of art that you can hang on the wall transformed, frames and all, into wearable fantastic garments. The craftsmanship that went into making the collection is off the scales and the pure love and affection the head designers show for the art made my heart soar.
Images from Viktor and Rolf facebook page
Raf Simons is a very important designer and person of note, at least in my opinion, it seems there is not one area of fashion he has not dipped his toes into, his own very successful long running menswear line, his work as head designer at Jil Saunder and his status as Artistic Director at Dior, not a mediocre career in the slightest. I recently found the essay on his work I slaved over for foundation only to find that it didn't count for anything and our lecturer had lost, it's sweet but on relfection slightly naive. Dior and I, the documentary about his first collection with Dior, which we watched in foundation during a cereal party, is fascinating and worth a watch if you're also interested in the fashion industry, or just like looking at pretty clothes.
His most recent collection for Dior is so stunning and beautiful it quells any fear that I won't be able to design again. It reminds me of heaven and ethereal angels, lounging housewives from the 1960's with a cocktail in one hand and despair in the other, renaissance beauties and impressionist paintings, like are you really trying to say you don't see Monet's water lilies in the dress second to the left?
There's something so heavenly about the collection, the flowing fabrics, delicate beading and textures, hints and flashes of skin and the beautiful prints that could only be from Dior. Even the simplicity of the slits at the wrist that add just that hint of volume to the arms is genius.
All images from Dazed
Once again the set design for Dior is fantastic and awe inspiring. Yeah Channel might have had Kirsten Stewart suited and booted in a casino (which is the best idea Karl has had in a long time, I have a real crush on Kirsten Stewart after seeing The Runaways film) but Dior takes you inside the mind of a flower fairy.
I also want to thank Dazed for once again helping me through another season and providing this wonderful rundown of Paris a/w 2015 in fast paced gif form x
xxx
Rosie
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