UNDERCOVER Spring/Summer RTW 2024
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When the lights went down, guests thought the show was over, but instead, three models in strapless dresses floated down the runway, appearing to glow from within. Their clear skirts were serving as terrariums, specked with real flowers and filled with live butterflies dancing about.
Backstage, the designer mentioned morality and shared that he was grieving for people he was close to. His translator said, “He feels like he’s stuck in the world, but he wants to release himself.” Throughout the collection, Takahashi expressed this idea literally, with the sheer materials of his garments revealing items like playing cards or razors. He took banal instances of humanity, often just hidden away in pockets, and put them on display behind shrouding, transforming them into something phantasmagorical.
But nothing felt more otherworldly than his terrarium dresses, which freed everyone in the audience from themselves for a brief moment of fashion fantasy. The butterflies, too, he assured us, would be released after the show.
[Image ID: six gifs from the trailer of Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse:
GIF 1: Gwen, against the backdrop of a vibrant, hexagonal portal, smiling down at Miles.
GIF 2: Gwen looking up at Miles. She is colored blue, while the hexagonal portal behind her is faintly orange and pink
GIF 3: Miles, looking shocked, the animation glitching wildly to make him look like he's vibrating. The background is gold lines intersecting at various points to make vibrant-colored shapes.
GIF 4: Miles, glitching, looking at Miguel as he says, "Nah, Imma do my own thing."
GIF 5: Spider-Man 2099 using his blades to knock webs out of his path as he continues climbing up a train.
GIF 6: Spider-Man 2099 walking forward as Spider-Woman emerges from a portal behind him on a motorcyle, riding in front and then around him.
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 2 title cards
Via Official Star Trek Twitter: "Featuring art by Bunker, @fluxartist, State, Moravia Roman, @sabeenu, @hicompadre, Brian Frank, Morphine, Kelly Bolton, @starryxm00ns, Flatwhite Motion, Bruno Brasil, and @echolab."
Source: Star Trek Official Instagram clip, May 26 2023
A parade of dreamlike yet surrealist constructions took the runway at the Intercontinental Paris Le Grand. Floating gowns, layered on structurally sculpted corsets, an absurd take on a stereotypical couture ballgown for the 21st century. The Spring/Summer ’23 ’Late Stage Capitalism Waltz’. “It comes from a love of glamour but like our perfume, we want it to be beautiful and we also want it to have a clever idea.We like the idea to first give the impression of, ‘Ahhhhhh, it’s going to be all very lovely.’ And then: Oops! There is a disconnect between what we see, and the physicality of the product. The information that comes at us, going from making banana cake to so many people being killed in Ukraine. It’s: What kind of world are we living in? It’s absurd.”
VIKTOR & ROLF Couture Spring/Summer 2023
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