Gratutious Edie Cut out and Fashion Week

Okay I admit adding Edie to the post is totally without reason because this post has nothing to do with her. It has more to do with being a ragpicker actually--I found this article on the Mulleavy Sisters in a copy of Metro I found on the PATH train. I decided the Mulleavy sisters (admittedly I know zippo about their work) are fascinating--I think mostly for what I don't know about their work. Teh article says they are part of the new fashion "avant-garde" which in fashion tends to mean clothing that can't actually be worn and I can't say I really liked the pictures of their work that was included in the article but I love where they are coming from.

Their trade name is Rodarte and the sisters are named Kate and Laura and they are based in LA. Kate claims she likes to spend her time at art book stores and lists Chris Burden (from the 70s when he crucified himself on a VW and had himself shot as in with a gun in the arm), Walter DeMaria, Eva Hesse, Picasso and Degas as artists that inform their work. Although the article didn't really give a sense of what their work is like nor how the above mentioned artists work can be seen as influencing what they do-- the article quotes Kate as stating " Kim Gordon and Miranda July capture our sensibility...but we'd love to see Julie Christie in our clothes." It also lists their fave mood music:

1. "Ghost Song" by Air
2. "Mother Nature's Son" by the Beatles
3. "Werewolf" by Cat Power
4. "Snow Tip Mountain" by The Octopus Project
5. "Heartbeat" by Wire

I adore Julie Christie and would want her in my clothes too. Darling is one of my favorite films but I absolutely love this film by Sally Potter called The Gold Diggers which you need to have read about a year's worth of Screen issues and tons of feminist film theory of the time to really understand what Sally Potter was attempting to deconstruct and reconstruct but I think that film is truly brilliant in all that it tries to do and for Julie Christie to star in such an completely avant-garde enterprise the Mulleavy sisters might find they will get Ms. Christie yet. But I'm not sure that their designs would exactly be made for a "mature" woman. With all the cut-outs and bare areas it is more like Rose MacGowan circa the invisible dress she is infamous for. Here's the picture that went with the article...not the greatest scan but you can sort of get a hint of their work...I want to like them because "Werewolf" is practically one of my favorite sons ever but...I don't know I think what is pictured here is too sheer and frilly for me...kleenex hung together with lace.

Comments

[anthony]

well, also, besides werewolf... mother nature's son is one of those beatles songs that many people may not know but it's a lovely song... even if it's a paul song... and it sort of defies dislike even for people who hate the beatles. in fact, reading this post, i wanted to go listen to mother nature's son. i'm telling you franny... once the beatles are on itunes i'll create a playlist that will win you over.

but alas, yeah kleenex hung together with lace.