Anna Sui Ready-to-Wear Spring/Summer 2012
Sept. 14, 2011 - New York
Rosie the Riveter has brought her devil-may-care looks to Gatsby’s lavish formals, spinning herself in pairs of disco pumps. She borrows her mother’s old lace ensembles yet her stars and stripes turn to hypnotic three-dimensional shapes, luring in the scintillating whispered movement of her cigarettes and head-wraps. She runs into the gardens of newly-grown grasses and finds herself lost amongst the fresh smell of spring clouds...
Then CRACK! TUMBLE!
Rosie falls into an array of textured pillows: fur, velvet, lace, chiffon, cotton, and nylon just to name a few. She propels herself through the fabrics until arriving to a bare concrete floor. Walking on, this explorer finally finds her nesting place. "It's time to sit back and relax after such a hard day."
She flutters into the warehouses of dotty gypsies, feeling native to the irreverent life of believers.
Inspiration
My
word of the day (as I love definitions and synonyms to a point of obsession) is
VICARIOUS (vike-a-ree-us)
adj.
experienced in the imagination through feelings or actions of another person
I saw
Anna Sui's collection and thought of the thrill of being a maverick and an avid traveler.
As I also am a
love of astrology, I thought of a
Sagittarius friend I have who is the embodiment of the sign.
Let me tell you about this
sign:
Born: November 22nd - December 21st
They are adventurers* by nature, as they love the
thrill and
excitement of being in
three - NOT two! - different places at once.
They are connoisseurs of
freedom in relation to traveling both
physically and
mentally (think Philosophers!) They want the
wisdom the world has to offer. They are also honest and frank, so when you ask them how you look be prepared for the truth.
Famous Sagittarians
Mark Twain (author of "The
Adventures* of Huckleberry Finn" and "The
Adventures* of Tom Sawyer")
Jimi Hendrix
Nicki Minaj
Brittany Spears
My mom (seriously, though)
(for more info on Sagittarius, click here)
The 1920s & 1940s
If you think of
flappers and
Rosie the Riverter when you see
Anna Sui's spring fashion, you're right on the spot.
There were a lot of
renegades in the 20s - women didn't want to dress "
properly" anymore, and
abandoned their tight corsets for drop-waist dresses that brought along
femininity to the picture (and NOT that kind of girly aspect of femininity, but the MASCULINE : WE-CAN-DO-WHAT-WE-WANT
attitude).
And
although there wasn't much freedom in the 1940s, as there was
WW|| and women were working in factories, there were many women who got
down & dirty on the machines.
