Summary
WAS there a power cut at the atelier where Viktor & Rolf make their clothes? Did the sewing machines break down at the 11th hour? For how else to explain the proliferation of staples where stitches should have been? This being a Viktor & Rolf show, the staples were not so much a reflection of technical difficulties as an anarchic statement. Quite what anarchic statement the Dutch duo were making was unclear, but it certainly seemed as if they were in a negative frame of mind, judging by the liberal use of the word "no". No, NO and sometimes even NO! appeared everywhere: in three-dimensional letters protruding from a grey herringbone coat, sheared into the arms of a fox fur jacket and daubed over the models' faces in thick black greasepaint.
While there was something quite unsettling and rather ugly about the sheared fox fur, the rest of the collection was typically slick, if you looked behind the gimmicks.See the full content of this document
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Slick Clothes? Yes. Gimmicks? No, No, No
Viktor & Rolf excel at tailoring, and key for autumn 2008 was a lean, fisht...
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