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.
For today's Trend de la Creme for Coutorture comparison, haute couture is given a funny likeness. The Joseph Font Fall 08 Couture show was full of billowing silhouettes and bright colors. Apparently this was a red flag in the mind of our brilliant Network Partner, Trend de la Creme, for she saw an immediate connection to mysterious invertebrates. This is not the first time such a comparison has been made, in fact, our Network Partner saw a likeness in Plankton and in Invertebrates once before. It's quite amazing how she does it, and what we enjoy most about the comparison is that it seems to shed some light on the aesthetic properties of the look. Suddenly that yellow frock looks like a living, breathing organism that's miraculously landed above ground for a Parisian fashion show. At the end of July, when news is slow (alas, fashion week is just around the corner), this vantage point is a breath of fresh air.
Sometimes on Fridays we post music videos we think are funny and fashionable, this week Trend de la Creme took it to the next level. Talk about an awesome end-of-the-week indulgence. Recession references aside, sometimes fashion looks a little bit like a video game. There, we said it. Just to take this to a serious place for a moment, we have to say that the men's shows this week have been a bit kooky, and so this seems like an appropriate finish to the week. Between Louis Vuitton's Charlie Caplin-like monochrome suiting, the Yamamoto castings, and the Romeo Gigli show which was Marx Brothers if nothing else, we have to say that humor was a welcomed sentiment this week. For today's comparison, Trend de la Creme likened the Swarovski Runway Rocks fashion show, which took place as part of London Jewelry Week, to video game creatures. Check out other comparisons from Trend de la Creme here.
Our Network Partner,Trend de la Creme, must have felt just as overheated as we did this past week, as her new comparison gallery can attest. This week Giambattista Valli's Fall 08 collection was likened to the iciest terrains. Though there is always a connection to be made between everything from the architectural to the the other wordly, today's Trend de la Creme comparison was spot on with the inspiration for Valli's collection. With a palate that moved from icy white through flushed pink to blood red, the term 'warm and fuzzy' didn't exactly come to mind. It was, rather, a brooding, powerful one in which the designer's attention to volume manifested in some downright ice cold power outfits. Call it a downturn in the economy, call it a subconscious plea for red carpet-worthy looks, we're pretty sure we can just expect Valli to keep things quite grown up and pointed, season after season.
For today's Trend de la Creme for Coutorture comparison gallery, we bring you Temperley Spring 08 as likened to African tribal masks. What, you didn't anticipate the connection? Don't worry about it, neither did we. What we did see in one of our favorite collections from Spring 08, was a nod to Fitzgerald and the French Riviera, a palate that used the nudes and poppy colors that were so on-target for the season, with breathtaking glamour. The prints in this collection were Art Deco inspired, and the body skimming silhouettes and conservative lengths of Temperley's frocks, likewise referenced the elegance of the 1920's and 30's. Trend de la Creme, however, was inspired by a cultural comparison more align with actual spirits, than that of Fitzgerald in the French Riviera. Her likening this collection to African tribal masks makes sense because of the earthy palate and clean lines found in the pleats and patterns of Temperley's Spring frocks. These masks, that is, had a similar geometric quality that signaled a relationship that is, although unexpected, undeniably present.
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