Jean-Charles de Castelbajac’s collection was supposed to be inspired by muppets, though the backdrop was a pixellated mouth and the clothes more about stuffed animals in general than muppets in particular.
There was one cape made of actual Kermit the Frogs and a skirt featuring that pink muppet whose name I can’t recall. But one minute, there were leopard beanie babies on a model’s hands and the next, a t-shirt dress printed with Michael Jackson’s face. There were plastic trench coats and dresses made, literally, out of laminated hair that was in the best case a twisted ode to Margiela - but that’s probably thinking about it too hard. And the cat heels weren’t just leopard print, they had tails and whiskers, too.
When one of the boys walked out in a Sesame Street print suit I thought of Jeremy Scott. And when it was followed by girls in money-printed dresses I thought of Jeremy Scott. But then at the end, models threw Obama-printed money into the crowd, and I thought of Gaultier.
At least we know he had more than one reference point.
posted by guest
Mar 10, 2009 4:37PM
"At least we know he had more than one reference point."
Are you fucking kidding? Castelbajac has been doing this stuff since Jeremy Scott was in kindergarten, and probably before Gaultier too. He is the grandfather of 'pop art' fashion, and most of the colourful nu-rave ish stuff that's been popular over the last few years is descended from stuff he was doing - but in the 70s!