Ok, so I admit that I have been fully obsessed with all this Alice in Wonderland buisness thats been going on (my nails are currently Mad as a Hatter from the OPI Alice Collection), but I swear that I haven’t let it effect my work!
With that being said, while watching the video and going through the pics from Viktor and Rolf’s Fall 2010 show, I kept thinking of the Red Queen, played by Helena Bonham Carter.
…. Cut to me watching Viktor and Rolf’s Fall 2010 runway show and thinking,”Wow, the Red Queen would really love this show”! Throughout the movie she talks about how she loves largeness and she likes things that are abnormally big.
At one point, Alice eats a piece of a cake to make her grow but she eats too much of it, and is now visible to the Queen. Red Queen is looking for Alice but is not aware that Alice is this “large girl” and tells her minions to “clothe this incredibly large girl immediately” (I have taken the liberty of providing you with a clip of the scene I was just talking about.)
Two other parts in the movie that have to do with un-proportionate largeness are when when the Knave of Hearts pins Alice aganist the wall and tells her ” I like largeness”, and when The Mad Hatter tries to get out of trouble by offering to make the queen a hat for her large head.
Members of Red Queens court all have LARGE exaggerated fake body parts, whether it be a a large nose, stomach, chin, boobs, etc.
-Never a dull moment-
Viktor Horsting and Ralph Snoeren, dutch conceptualists, always have the most interesting shows; its just a fact you must live with. Their shows are always captivating and overly amazing because of their creativity and their ability to make every show so random and entertaining while keeping the clothing and design beautiful and intricate.
In 1998, Viktor & Rolf put on an unauthorized, underground fashion show during Paris Fashion Week designed to attract members of the press.
An early fashion presentation was titled ‘Russian Doll’ (Autumn/Winter 1999-2000). A lone model, Maggie Rizer , was positioned on a revolving platform to be dressed by the designers in nine garments, one on top of the other as a Russian doll in reverse.
Viktor & Rolf have gained attention for their artistic, concept-driven catwalk presentations. They have also used a collection of International Klein Blue clothes as a chroma-key blue-screen to project video. In their Fall 2007 collection, each model wore scaffolding with her own lights and music, carrying their own fashion show as it were. For the presentation of their first menswear collection, they themselves modelled the clothes, changing outfits on the stage. Their collections have featured several performers, like Tilda Swinton, Tori Amos and Rufus Wainwright. Another longtime cooperation is with internationally known photographers Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin, who made the photographs for all three of their fragrance campaigns.
Further presentations saw models act as blue-screens in ‘Long Live the Immaterial’ (Bluescreen) (Autumn/Winter 2002-03) a parade that used chroma-key techniques to project moving images onto the garments. Other collections such as ‘Atomic Bomb’ (Autumn/Winter 1998-99) and ‘Black Light’ (Spring/Summer 1999) have been presented twice. In both cases, models paraded the catwalk twice, first as a performative spectacle, and again to display the wearable collection.
Presentations have also featured several performers including Tilda Swinton on whom ‘One Woman Show’(Autumn/Winter 2003-04) was based, Tori Amos who performed in ‘Bedtime Story’ (Autumn/Winter 2005-06) and Rufus Wainwright who performed in ‘Ballroom’(Spring/Summer 2007).
Viktor & Rolf
Some refer to Viktor Horsting and Rolf Snoeren as the Gilbert and George of fashion, a comparison that goes beyond their twinned, bespectacled appearance. Since Viktor & Rolf began making clothes in 1993 after graduating from the Netherlands’ Arnhem Academy of Art and Design, they have endeavored to blur the line between art and fashion. The Dutch duo’s runway presentations are typically high on concept, showmanship, and wit. And like all good artists they can infuriate as well as delight. A few (out of many) examples of their unusual approach: an entirely topsy-turvy show with upside-down dresses and an ear-splitting backwards soundtrack, a provocative all-black show (including the models’ faces), and a presentation featuring, on a revolving turntable, a single model who was layered in look after look like a Russian doll.
Though early on they were known for wowing the fashion press but not selling a stitch, Horsting and Snoeren have since tapped into their commercial potential. They made a move from haute couture to ready-to-wear in 2000, launched a perfume called Flowerbomb (and packaged it in a grenade-shaped bottle) in 2004, drew frenzied crowds for their collaboration with fast-fashion retailer H&M in 2006, and opened a boutique on the Via Sant’Andrea in Milan. Earlier this year the pair sold a controlling stake of its business to Diesel owner Renzo Rosso. “We have high ambitions,” Snoeren commented to The New York Times, which also reported their plans to open five more boutiques within the next few years. Nevertheless, their penchant for surrealism hasn’t diminished: Their 15-year retrospective at London’s Barbican Art Gallery, called The House of Viktor & Rolf, consisted of a gigantic dollhouse populated by 55 dolls, each wearing a Viktor & Rolf look re-created in miniature.
Looks from V&R Fall 2010 show
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