[birdofparadise]

It's interesting how he...sort of plays with the audience's emotions with the hoods, with a simple piece of clothing and what it has sort of come to mean. Of course, it's much more than that, it's the setting and the flares but he's also litmus testing the value of clothing--not just price tags but our sudden desire to use clothing as identifiers, to single out who might be a danger and who might not and who's to say what's really going on under that hood and what happens if and when it isn't there anymore?


In a way, it reminds me of Louis Vuitton a bit when they talk about making all the clothes as precious as the bags, as if every item were as whimsical and appropriate for a spur of the moment buy. In this collection (IMHO) all the clothes become 'hoods', they cloak and hide, they convey written information, demand a good deal of your attention...the sweaters can be just as threatening. There's a lack of hope there that dismantles the stigma...expertly done, fashion history for sure.