Comme des Garçons S/S 2013 Paris

[KKnardi]

thanks for the etymology and philosophy lessons runner...
makes perfect sense to me...
i like the musical reference in both cases...


tang- i'd say your instincts are pretty much spot on in this case...


watching the video was good...
seeing the rear views and the movement makes the whole collection come alive in a much more real and relevant way...

i think the first 1/2 is more successful---
all the folds and details get lost in the black fabrics, imo...
i also felt like the hats were hard sculpture while the garments were soft sculptures...another clash, of sorts...

outstanding work ...

agree agree agree!!!

 

[Tentacl Ventricl]

rei etymologically means a (slightly metallic) sound clear, beautiful, pleasantly cool.



it looks to me like crash or clash rather than crush. a clash between pieces of clothing. and then sparks. this combustion becomes the content of the work.
this collection makes me think of adorno: "the mystery is between them, and it cannot be invoked otherwise than in the figure they create together".

excellent. Adorno speaks of course of the metier of Beethoven's late period, the rise and fall from hope to catastrophe. He says that out of the silence comes the explosion. The primal moment.

The best part of the Style.com review spoke of compression of the body. Via those straps but also in the piled constriction. I imagine perhaps a point of silence before the garmientiary body explodes propelling the spirit deep into the cosmos. It was the theme of CdeG (and I thought Sarah Burton) last season. This season we've also the explosiary big bang prints at ie Fendi and MiuMiu. And bees. And the geometric sweet honeycomb cells of The Queen. It seems that McQueen is still and the only brand over there at PPR with any due integration.

 

[runner]

or from some elements of her work it could be seen as "parataxis" dressmaking, in a way.


pics by tsukahara at yomiuri

 

[Not Plain Jane]

or from some elements of her work it could be seen as "parataxis" dressmaking,

Yes, there is something "dadaist" about her work...I agree! Thanks again for the extra pictures.

 

[Uemarasan]

Yes, there is something "dadaist" about her work...I agree! Thanks again for the extra pictures.

Great insight! Yes, definitely "dadaist". In that way I think she has more in common with Schiaparelli than Prada (a connection that really wasn't as strong as the Met exhibition had hoped...).

 

[softgrey]

Great insight! Yes, definitely "dadaist". In that way I think she has more in common with Schiaparelli than Prada (a connection that really wasn't as strong as the Met exhibition had hoped...).

what connection?......
that whole thing was dreadful...

thanks for the detail shots runner!
i don't know much about dada, tbh...

what i get from the details is almost impressionistic...
it's really confusing close up and hard to see what is going on...
but when one stands back and views the garment as a whole, it begins to take shape...

 

[Scott]

^agreed. when i first heard about that i was appalled at its ludicrousness. miuccia might be clever but she's nowhere near the the visionary that schiap was and rei is. the only thing she and elsa have in common is their nationality.

loving everybody's observations on what's behind it all. all i can say is there does seem a heightened play on energy and electricity. there's something very static-y about the collection but not merely that out of the dryer static but real environmental forces.

i also love susie's synopsis.....it could be an underlying commentary on societal habits and behaviours with our obsessions with all things electronic.

 

[runner]

what i get from the details is almost impressionistic...
it's really confusing close up and hard to see what is going on...
but when one stands back and views the garment as a whole, it begins to take shape...

yes I too think distance is the key, since respective parts lost conventional correlation and normative causation. sleeve is no longer subordinate to bodice. each garment component is independent and equal. hence "parataxis" dressmaking. at a distance, in the glowing aggregate of debris, you vaguely see those fragments edit themselves and complement one another on a vast scale.