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Fashion Week Live ORFI
CtMH: There you are sweetie. I'm really shocked as to how corporate ORFI has gone. Fashion show in a luxury car showroom? I'm so intimidated. How was the Kitty Boots? EDX: Cute. I sat behind Deborah Harry. CtMH: And... EDX: It was very 80's, Very Kitty. Retro-80's have become a way of life for a new generation of downtown kids. There's not even a sense of humor about it any more. CtMH: Well I love ORFI and I'm really looking forward to this show which is why I didn't want to contaminate my psyche with Miss Boots. EDX: You weren't missed. CtMH: Kitty Boots is the poor girl's Daryl K. EDX: You aren't allowed to make pronouncements like that, not unless you're a dude who's been known to wear Daryl K. Oh the kids here are fun. Who's the guy in the kilts and the bad make-up? CtMH: Je ne sais pas. But he's talking to Russell Miller who's launching a new "lifestyle" rag called "Nervous" or "Flighty" or something like that. There's Jaymz Nylon and Bruce's Daphne and Karen Levitt and Max from 2B and Toshio Takeda who used to assist Jennifer Elster but who just got signed to Walter Scuphfer. Kelly Reyerson over in the corner. EDX:
Talk about reverse chic. Apparently tout le underworld
is here. (Post-Show) EDX: You look perplexed. CtMH: No... I admired that... I guess because I saw the Men's show in July... this was a little anti-climactic. I mean Military Surplus meets 80's New Wave cut with a touch of Hip-Hop. My perfect cup of tea. But in terms of the show, I felt like I was watching a live version of Surface magazine. Y'know, Geometry, Construction, Conceptualism! EDX: Fashion is the Performance Art of the 90's. CtMH: And that's not compelling. EDX: I loved the make-up. It made me think that maybe Lisa Marie and that mega-foundation maquillage is directional. I think I'm going to have to run home and cake my face in super-white pancake. The casting was focused too. I think I want to break my nose so I can give that "Grace Kelsey" effect. These clothes were not quite my thing. It's the sort of look that would only work at a Creative Time/Brooklyn Anchorage opening but I liked the ideas. CtMH: You know what. Timothy overstyled this show. I would have like to have seen this stripped down. These clothes could have easily stood on their own and a perceptive stylist would have realized this. There was one sweater in particular however that I loved but all that "high art" that swirled around these really intelligent pieces... distracting... EDX: That very Missoni looking number was brilliant CtMH: Yeah. Constructed Shirts over long T's and the juxtaposition of very bright neon tones against clinical white or satiny black. It's quite intelligent but I suspect it all feels too Crypto-European and self-conscious. I still love ORFI though and I'll go run through the pieces in the showroom and give it a fair shake. |
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