30 September 2024

"Finally, a new look"


The title of this post is the lede for a New York Times fashion review article, which noted that some clothes resembled "cumulus clouds of cotton wadding and people-swallowing structures that send the imagination soaring up, up and away, while ignoring certain exigencies like sitting down."  Another resembles a "hooded insectoid cape."


I am a self-admitted ignoramus when the subject is haute couture, so I have to defer to the columnist who noted "Abnormal is the new normal, which pretty much sums up the current design challenge. That’s why Mr. Anderson’s Loewe show was so powerful — he made unusual clothes that seemed like exactly what you would want to throw on in the morning."

Peronally, I'll stick to normcore.

Top image cropped for size, credit Comme des Garçons, spring 2025, Simbarashe Cha/The New York Times.  The other two are Courrèges, spring 2025.

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