Trend de la Creme For Coutorture: Entomological Comparisons

coutorture — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:58:52 -0700

See, New Yorkers like nature! Promise! Well, it doesn't hurt when there's a bit of fashion thrown in the mix (or black lipstick!). For our second installment of this exclusive Trend de la Creme for Coutorture comparison series, Trend de la Creme has helped us rig up the likeness of bugs and insects with the Fall 08 Giles collection as seen in London Fashion Week. This collection is said to have been inspired by Edgar Allen Poe's The Masque Of The Red Death, a story where a grand party is thrown with each room decorated in a different color. In the story, everyone starts, quite literally, dropping dead. So for Giles, this meant a kind of glamorous gothic inspiration. Why, then, does each garment correspond so impeccably with an insect or bug? We're thinking it's to do with the golden ratio or something. Or, on a serious note, that our eye recognizes only a few general aesthetic characteristics at first glance (color, shape, texture), leaving room for these likenesses. Take a peek for yourself, our gallery of the Giles Fall 08 collection and its entomological comparisons, below.

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Trend de la Creme For Coutorture: Entomological Comparisons