What I Wore

Fur Stole: Etsy Find

Turtleneck: Vintage

Vest: Vintage

Floral Embroidered Coat: Vintage

Jeans: Forever 21

Shoes: Forever 21

Earrings: Vintage

Mask: Etsy Find

What I Wore

 Vest: Vintage

Ruff Flannel Shirt: Zara

Coat: Vintage

Pants: Topman

Boots: Zara

Earrings: H&M

Sunglasses: Vintage

What I Wore

Jacket: Forever 21

Leather Top: Forever 21

Lipstick Silk Shirt: Forever 21

Jeans: Forever 21

Boots: Zara

What I Wore

 Fringe Kaftan: H&M

Black Wedge Boots: Forever 21

Choker: Forever 21

Drop Crystal Duster Earrings: Forever 21

Lipstick: Kat Von D "Nosferatu"

Comme Des Garçons Spring/Summer 2017 Ready-to-Wear Review

     The elusive designer Rei Kawakubo is bored with showing clothes on the runway. Instead, she is creating magnificent sculptures onto the human body. They speak as art would about the current world we are living in. Absolutely rich in craftsmanship, these billowing works of art are sewn, embroidered, and draped into romantic silhouettes. In fact, this was the most beautiful collection ever done at Comme Des Garçons. This collection references everything that has come before it within the house and really summarizes the brand as a whole. It is incredibly remarkable that a brand like Comme Des Garçons has managed to transcend decades and not follow the frivolous trends that exist in the fashion world. Comme Des Garçons is its own bubble that transcends fads and creates works at every price point that are beautiful and people still have an immense desire to purchase. This collection in particular was gothic, counter-cultural, and breathtaking. Flat and structured black wool and velvet with white ruffles and bows emulated a girly yet twisted style. Lederhosen with pleats flying off the body in black acid wash fabric was just one example of creating surrealism with clothes. There were countless other examples of surrealism with extremely deep references woven in. Sinister beauty oozed from the surface with the extremely dark color palette and use of latex. Plastic also covered the models faces in a perverse way. Perhaps they're suffocating under the weight of consumerist culture. Perhaps they're committing suicide. Perhaps Kawakubo is explaining her distaste for a world that only cares about the 2-D synthetic image that only appears real. Maybe she's speaking about this Instagram culture, where everyone is taking pictures of the events that they go to, rather than enjoying the experience and creating a screen of separation between the individual and the outside world. Whatever the intention may be, every aspect of this collection has more to do with the real world and all of it's problems, rather than the superficial trends of the fashion industry.