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Rodarte
Designers: Kate and Laura Mulleavy

• “A more West Coast rock-and-roll take on winter wear.” [AFP]
• “Not all of it worked. Then again, we’ve seen a lot of sameness on the runways this week. (Fur! Menswear fabrics!). At least these fashion free spirits had the creative juices flowing.” [All The Rage/Los Angeles Times]
• “Design sisters Laura and Kate Mulleavy grew up in sunny Santa Cruz, Calif., and evoked their seaside hometown in their fall collection. But perhaps only to them. ‘It’s really our own version of it,’ Laura Mulleavy said backstage.” [AP]
• “The label’s designer sisters Kate and Laura Mulleavy showcased a collection in a mash-up of styles, colours and subcultures, inciting quite the mixed reaction in the fashion world.” [The Daily Mail]
• “It’s tempting to keep probing for answers and over analyse Rodarte’s references but the main thing is that despite being deliberately disparate, it felt like a collection that once again tapped into the sisters’ cleverly nuanced sensibility. Nothing was too obvious and that was satisfying to see.” [The Daily Telegraph]
• “What is a California childhood made of? For Rodarte designers Kate and Laura Mulleavy, the components look like: board shorts, skater jackets, bodysuits, tie-dye, tattoos and barbed wire crowns.” [ELLEuk.com]
• “Rodarte’s Fall 2013 collection could be summed up in four words: punk rock prom queen.” [FabSugar]
• “This is the stuff that fashionistas dreams are made of–and these surrealistic siblings are here to help those dreams come true.” [Grazia Daily]
• “Tie-dye and beaded angels’ wings were the most graphic elements of a Rodarte collection that had people talking about skaters, goth and bikers. There were a lot of disparate elements to digest in the multilayered outfits of the sisters Kate and Laura Mulleavy, and it might take some time to sort them all out.” [On The Runway/The New York Times]
• “Where you come down on the collection will have a lot to do with how nostalgic you are for your own youth—that and your tolerance for fashions of the late eighties. The era happens to be one of this reporter’s sweet spots, which made the tie-dye gowns with the strange double-faced foam shoulder straps and bibs that arrived in the middle of the show pretty irresistible.” [Style.com]
• “Soulful and affecting.” [Vogue.com]
• “It was grunge and it was gothic, Nineties and theatrical, skate culture, LA surfers, fairytale princesses and Eighties street kids. Yep, that’s a lot of different references to slip into one collection–it got more historical and billowy at times too–but somehow they all seamlessly blended into one.” [Vogue.com UK]
• “Their fall lineup also fell close to the hometown tree, with the designers flying the flag for the outer-limits charm of West Coast free spirits while making a real effort to show something that earthlings will buy and wear.” [WWD]