Sure, I may be a Fashion Week novice, but I know a good thing when it hits me in the camera lens: Qasimi’s A/W 09 collection struck a perfect balance between drama and defilé. Shown in a church in Marylebone with opera in the background, the immaculately tailored Victorian gothica outfits borrowed as much from The Matrix as they did from Tim Burton movies.
So far fashion week has been super exciting. We’ve seen lots of pretty dresses, an unpleasant amount of abstract headgear, and more side-boob than you could ever dream of. To the trained fashion eye however, the clothes on display represent something much more profound than a bunch of fancy/ridiculous stuff we can’t afford. According to the little pieces of paper they put on the seats next to the catwalk, the shows we saw today dealt with themes as epic in scope as corporate social responsibility and climate change (Black Noir), the harvest festival (Caroline Charles) and that shitty movie where Natalie Portman shaved her head, V for Vendetta (Eun Jeong). We grilled some fashionistas to try and break this seemingly top-secret fashion code.
ERIN O’CONNOR
Hey supermodel Erin O’Connor! What do you think of the Black Noir collection?
It’s not often you can use the words ‘ethical’ and ‘fashion’ in the same sentence. I thought it was very sexy.
Look, we appreciate you going for the Nazi punk Sandinista gay pornstar from Cats thing, but with Chucks? You need to have four-foot-high Kiss boots with bazookas on them and you need to be on a mountain somewhere killing eagles. That is to say, get out of here.
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You don’t have to be rich and famous to be like Jay Z and Beyoncé. You just need 100 shots and weird lighting.
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