"red is the great clarifier; bright and revealing." – diana vreeland
chanel
christian dior
ceci n'est pas un fashion blog – collection reviews should be left to professional critics, or poets, in the cases of tim blanks and nicole phelps (all hail). but here and there i hope to entertain with some of my reflections on the subject.
it's fascinating when creative peers land on similar ground while running in parallel. how does it happen – what is in the air that inspires shared references and on such a specific level? even if conceptually it began for spring 2015 couture as distant as "the future", their flight paths saw them leaping and bounding towards their destination with assured clarity of vision – bright and revealing.
lagerfeld and simons' illuminations unfold in harmonious saturation of color, amped up, waxy and thick as a spread for toast. and though florals for spring is no contemporary invention, and though their renditions are mesmerizing and lusciously cheerful, i can't help but take home that their spring of the however distant future is one where nature is no longer wild but a fabricated environment controlled by remote, colonies of industrially manufactured blooms sprouting where directed.
christian dior
chanel
maybe it's the plasticity of the elements, in recreating the serene poppy fields of a monet painting or the insistent excess (or confined decadence) of the story woven into these garments that renders their vision of the future so wall-e-like. either way you have to agree that there is no going back to any kind of simpler time, and ideals of beauty will evolve too.
i won't mind that future, as long as i can stomp my way through it in those damn red boots.
xn
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