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Viktor & Rolf
Someone Other Than Lady Gaga Is Wearing Viktor & Rolf Spring 2010
Apphia Michael—a personal assistant and office manager at Wallpaper magazine—arrived at the Wallpaper-sponsored Design Awards in London last night wearing one of the hacked-up topiary dresses from Viktor & Rolf's spring 2010 runway. This isn't the first time an oversized dress from the same collection has hit the red carpet. (Katy Perry braved the MTV Europe Music Awards this year in a slightly less-cumbersome dress from the same season.)
Because it's not easy to attend events in a dress that could knock over your date with one wrong sudden turn, we say kudos to this sartorially adventurous PA.
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Paris Fashion Week: Viktor & Rolf Spring 2010
runway, Gallery, Designer, Splash · October 3, 2009 · 3 Comments
Shopping: Sneakers Get Some Height
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Paris Fashion Week: Viktor & Rolf Fall 2009
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The House Of Viktor and Rolf
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The House of Viktor And Rolf, and Exhibtion at The Barbican Gallery in London, 2008.
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Viktor & Rolf At The Barbican
feature, Designer · September 14, 2008 · 0 Comments
Fashion works at high speeds--one minute we're at New York Fashion Week and the next we're jetting off to the next city, pressing the big shiny replay button. This time it's London Fashion Week and in honor of this city's courtship with fashion and the arts, we've scouted out one fashion exhibition that just couldn't be missed. The House Of Viktor & Rolf, currently at the Barbican Art Gallery in London, reveals the surreal haute couture fantasies that this passionate Dutch twosome have been creating on and off the runway for the last fifteen years, and boy, is it breathtaking.
These designers know how to make a satirical splash in the fashion world, from going on 'strike' in the early stages of their career to painting their models black to covering a single model with garment after garment to create a literal Russian Doll right on the runway.
For the exhibition the two commissioned a giant dollhouse, commemorating their most memorable designs with porcelain dolls (each about two feet tall) not only dressed in miniature replicas of the clothing, but rendered after the models who originally strutted, spinned, or danced down the innovative runways in order to display them. Playing with the notion of a 'fashion house' and their own fascination with 19th century European dolls, the exhibit perfectly sums up the allure of Viktor and Rolf: that there are some designers who just aren't afraid to give in to their imagination, even at the expense of selling clothing.
For more images from the exhibit, click here.
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