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Splatter Fashion Hits the Runways
January 12, 2006 – If that trip to Art Basel left you feeling inspired, you may be the perfect customer for spring's paint-covered fashions. The most elegant example of splatter art was in Paris at Ann Demeulemeester's show. "I imagined an extravagant woman dressed in white silk," the designer explained. "She walks into an atelier. She doesn't care about the paint splashing all over her clothes. She doesn't think her outfit is destroyed; on the contrary, she feels her clothes have been embellished with emotion." Needless to say, those "accidental" splashes of color were administered with a sure, light touch. Less sensual perhaps, but no less effective, was Libertine's painter's trench. "It's meant to look like it belonged to a nineteenth-century artist in Provence who wore it every day for 15 years," said designer Johnson Hartig, whose own trademark paint-splattered work shorts share the aesthetic. Bernhard Willhem, meanwhile, opted for a naïve ink-jet "sketch print," and Donna Karan's MoMA-inspired collection featured a linear design worthy of an abstract expressionist. Elsewhere, there was a surprising common thread between the very uptown Chado presentation and Imitation of Christ's hipper outing: Both featured graffiti-like scratch effects created with embroidery.
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Kinda makes me think about that coca cola commercial
