The new big thing? Antidote Magazine would have us believe it’s homeless chic.
Their latest big editorial, shot on the streets of Paris, features Magdalena Frackowiak in dirt-smeared couture pretending to be a hobo.
Frackowiak lays on piles of plastic bags, reclines in dirty socks, sleeps under cardboard boxes and crouches on open ground.
Needless to say, fashion commentators are not impressed – not with the styling, but with the poor fishing for controversy.
After a year of true scandal – Galliano’s implosion, the accusations of racism at Vogue, controversies over plus-size models – this homeless stunt just seems like a weak attempt to fish for headlines.
Do you believe that to be noticed in fashion today you need to be politically incorrect?
Image: Antidote Magazine editorial.
The Newest Trend: Fairytale
Viktor & Rolf, Miu Miu, Junya Wanatabe: not names you’d usually see grouped together in a trend story.
But this Paris season has brought them together in an unusual way.
They’ve all turned to fairytales – particularly the darker, Grimm-Brothers side – for their latest seasonal inspiration, and we at Rescu. think it’s a pretty happy ending.
Both Miu Miu and Wanatabe applied the approach to fashion. Miu Miu took Little Red Riding Hood and made her chicer, taking ladylike capes and patchwork straight out of a picture-book cottage and applying them to modern fashion.
And over at Wanatabe, there were floral prints straight out of The Secret Garden. The key to this season is romanticism with a bitter twist.
Need to get yourself in the mood? Buy Viktor + Rolf’s new book of fairytales. That’s right, the pair have actually turned to the storytelling business.
Fairy Tales by Viktor + Rolf is full of twisted tales of a fashionable kind – the perfect accompaniment to a Peter Pan collar and a pair of Mary Janes.
Image: Miu Miu Spring 2012.
Missoni For Target: The Nasty Aftermath
Target have fired the man responsible for their website and marketing, in apparent direct response to the Missoni crisis.
The collaboration between Missoni and Target hit the headlines for all the wrong reasons when its ordering website crashed, almost irreparably, on the day of the collection’s debut.
Many frustrated consumers complained, and it seems that the head of Target IT has now been removed from duty.
Target will be featuring numerous other diffusion lines very soon, and they may be unwilling to endure another tabloid storm.
The retailers may also never be able to fill the orders placed on the launch date, due to failings in the ordering system, which would provoke another round of castigation.
Rescu. hopes that the next line goes smoothly.
Image: Missoni For Target
Celebs & Fashion Identities Go Twilight At Vampire Ball
Carine Roitfeld is never one to do things subtly.
For the publication of her new book, Irreverent, Roitfeld held a ‘bal des vampires’ in Paris.
The theme? Creatures of the night – and the guests entered the spirit quite enthusiastically.
Given that it was the fashion pack, black abounded – in numerous shades of sheer and slinky.
However, very little glittery skin was to be found. Instead, the focus of the night was on the magnificent headpiece of Anna Della Russo, editor of Vogue Japan, who had a gigantic red demonic swan by Giles Deacon for Stephen Jones on her head.
Paris Fashion Week now has a history of grand balls – Paris Vogue held a masquerade last year.
Now the question is whether ball fashion will enter the trend books by next spring.
Image: Della Russo and Roitfeld at the Bal Des Vampires.
