Ghost-faced drag
queen faces completed with bold red lipstick? See-through white latex fabric
laced not as a corset in the back but more parallel to a pair of Converse
All-Stars? Or matching white doctor’s gloves with wiry, circle-lensed glasses?
Let's not forget the eerie hairnets and empty opened doctor's bag looking
purses. I'm referencing Thom Browne's Spring/Summer womenswear collection, of
course! This collection shocked, surprised, and made me fall in love with the nearly
asylum like getups. Multiple different unconventional fabrics created each
individual outfit. For example, weird flesh-colored latex over white lace
printed dresses molded out of deformed hoop skirts. And that's just one
example! I obsessed over the unusually stimulating latex collar and tie combo
on each model for the first ten garbs. It reminded me of a strong military
woman, if she was to go insane and her uniform was to suddenly take on the same
state of being. Those looks were extremely structured in various rectangle and
square shapes that made me reminisce ever so on Browne's fall womenswear
collection. But that collection looked much more historically chic and less… uncomfortable
or unusual than this one. When the rigid
format left in the eleventh ensemble, so did the overall constricting of the
hair, the glasses, and any other left over forms of sanity. The architecture of
the garments swayed every which way and the hair and makeup create a further
sense of insanity. Bold red lipstick smeared over the powdered faces of the
models. Their eyes glared wide and sullen, and their hair looked as though they
had just electrocuted themselves! The almost “1940s military woman” looks
changed into Elizabethan insanity. Near-macabre red and black became a part of
the unique garments. Black filled the formerly pristine fabric like ink
staining texture. Red popped up in the hairnets, which took on the idea of
Parisian berets that let the model’s hair run wild. Much different than the
constricting the hairnets were doing before. Interestingly, long strands of
pearl necklaces wrapped around the model’s necks like nooses. The long and wiry
pear necklaces sometimes wrapped off the shoulder and into hands, resembling
dog leashes. In one incident, a crazed lady even had a rope of pearls tied in a
way that somewhat resembled a dainty cat! The multiple eccentrics of this
collection by Thom Browne were amazing and thought provoking. It opened my mind
to a chilling insanity that nearly felt calm, if that isn’t too much of an
oxymoron.
Photo Credits: Style.com
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