I had just read about the newly restored Hollyhock House when I did my afternoon gambol to style.com and read Tim Blanks mention it in his write-up on Rick Owens’ Fall 2015 collection. Am I reading the Internet’s mind, or is it reading mine? Or are we ONE???
Rick Owens Fall 2015
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Mayan Revival Hollyhock House in L.A.
On to other Fall 2015 memory game matches. So as soon as I saw Gareth Pugh’s show-closing Britannia…
…my mind went here:
Kevin O’Neill’s Britannia in latex from The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Century: 2009
I would not have questioned it if this look from Marko Mitanovski’s latest was buried deep within Charles Fréger’s Wilder Mann photo stream:
Marko Mitanovski Fall 2015, detail.
Wilder Mann, photos by Charles Fréger:
The Autumn/Winter 2010/11 shows at Paris Fashion Week come - for better or worse - leather bound. Also, “tribe” and “tribal” are words that often get tossed about in reference to this season’s collections. Sarah Mower of Style.com quoted Rick Owens as saying that his women are, ‘a sect of nuns with inner discipline’. Well, naturally I think Dune:
Punk Bene Gesserits at the Rick Owens A/W 2010/11 show
All photos from Style.com
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