Monday

Veiled Desires - Carolina Herrera Spring 2012




Carolina Herrera RTW SS 2012

Sept. 12, 2011 - New York

“Do tell me why I got the feeling that the little angels didn’t delight my company as much as I did theirs?,” pondered the baroness, resting her delicate face against her white glove. (The 25-mph wind was blowing against her rosy cheeks and her sunhat had to be held down by a white silk scarf; she was in the passenger’s side of her fiance’s Morris Cowley.) It was because she was assiduously correcting the invisible dirt and feathers on her thin & diaphanous dresses instead of playing with the children’s budgies and bright yellow canaries. “Just be natural, and try not to ingratiate yourself into children’s lives, my dear,” but her fiance dared not proclaim this aloud, for fear of her feminist brusqueness.

Inspiration



Moriss Cowley car

Tuesday

Uncaged Bird, Take Flight - Somarta Spring/Summer 2012


Somarta Spring/Summer 2012
Tamae Hirokawa
Tokyo Fall 2011

A mother arrives at her children's begging and pleading, hungry for the daily worm. Feeding them, she thinks about her exactly measured home. She was proud of the work she put into the geometric nesting area he had graphed and started for her with his own bare claws. Who was he? Her lover who had fearlessly sacrificed his aerodynamic life for the freedom of his bloodline - their fledgelings.
His commitment had inspirited in her a resilient disposition to defend and be aware of any prowlers about.
An unforgiving mountain panther had gripped her lover's wings one stormy night when he was protecting her under his warm water-resistant feathers. She recalled his struggling against the giant black shadows of growls and screeches and the fog that seemed to suffocate her heart.

She had taken a chance then - a palette of wrath puffing through her shocked body. She had attacked. She the force of a thousand thunder bolts.

The fluffiness of her plumage evolved into pointy elements of spikes.

Red spilled in lines all around: the fierce lion had lay as a flightless cat.

She would never forget her lover's last words:

"Live unbound. Take flight."




Inspiration

Thunderbirds from Native American lore (as the designer mentioned).



 Peter Pan & the love story



Somarta