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Rodarte
Designers: Kate and Laura Mulleavy

• “Rodarte’s Kate and Laura Mulleavy veered away from the breezy feminine lines they showed in New York a year ago in favor of a darker post-goth look–fitting, perhaps, in this year of The Hunger Games.” {AFP}
• “The sisters Mulleavy have a knack for creating garments that are wholly transportative, whether the destination is mythical Medieval times, or a Jetsons-worthy future yet unrealized, and this season they rolled the 24-sided dice on a world that melds both, and you know what? We’re totally game.” {All The Rage/Los Angeles Times}
• “Punk met the medieval princess on the catwalk at the Rodarte New York Fashion Week show on Tuesday.” {The Associated Press}
• “The kooky (a.k.a. genius) Mulleavy sisters delved deep into their Pandora’s box of tricks this season, giving us a heady mix of Medieval meets motorbiker maven, looking as though they’d stepped out of an episode of Game of Thrones and into a dark and fantastical remake of Easy Rider.” {Grazia Daily}
• “exposure to the sophisticated world of high fashion has changed the sisters Kate and Laura Mulleavy. Although there was still fine craftwork in guipure or brocade, the duo are now “on trend.” From the short, egg-shaped skirted dress familiar for many seasons to shoes that mirrored Balenciaga footwear, their show was probably more commercially savvy–but had lost its magic.” {International Herald Tribune}
• “The Rodarte collection this season was not for sitting around. The sisters Kate and Laura Mulleavy packed a lot of energy into collages of guipure and jacquard with metal cages, built-in jewelry and panels of silk printed with an ivy trellis, on evening gowns and short strapless dresses.” {On The Runway/The New York Times}
• “The Rodarte collection was surprisingly klutzy. Kate and Laura Mulleavy have worked with hard-edge materials in the past, but that wasn’t the problem. Despite a solid hand with leather pieces, like studded lace-up pants, many of their looks verged on Proenza Schouler’s style.” {The New York Times}
• “Let me count the ways that Rodarte’s spring collection was a mash-up of other top designers’ previous seasons: Balenciaga, Prada, Rochas, Erdem.” {Speakeasy/The Wall Street Journal}
• “Pure fashion fantasy? Not exactly. You needn’t be a gamer, current or former, to appreciate silk blouses with graphic blocks of color or a T-shirt gown with an ivy print. All sorts of girls will be eager to role-play their way into this collection.” {Style.com}
• “God bless the maverick Mulleavy sisters; they certainly bring a uniquely idiosyncratic blend of crazy inventiveness and a perversely sophisticated loving-hands-at-home passion (think macramé, patchwork, quilting) to the New York collections that sets them apart from anything else to be seen here. This season their imaginations ran wild.” {Vogue.com}
• “It was a startling new direction packed with content and a silent request to look closely at the plentiful technique that went into each piece.” {Vogue.com UK}
• “For all their oh-gosh naïf mystique, Kate and Laura Mulleavy have some potent subversion, maybe even a little kink, coursing through their veins. For spring, the fantastical quality that defines their work, whether dark or romantic–in this case, both–featured an aggressive streak.” {WWD}