“Cheap is the new black,” read a comic in this week’s New Yorker. People consume less, think of creative ways to recycle, rethink, or re-accessorize, and this spring may be ‘lost‘ for this season’s clothes. Yet the haute couture world is still showing itself off in Milan, Paris, and New York City. A friend linked me yesterday to this Newsvine article: apparently, it is Russian that is the new black. At least for Fall ’09-Winter ’10. This is how Newsvine describes one of the shows:
It was like some opening into a doorway of dreams in Russian-Ukrainian fairy tale fantasy dreams,” the first-row guest told reporters backstage.
A Russian-Ukrainian fairy tale? Sounds good to me.
Many a Russian woman who found herself choosing between furs or ugly, bulky, shapeless jackets for a Russian winter will appreciate the fashionable efforts of the designers to make something warm and Russia-inspired (that is, if she can still afford it). The usual array of Russian/Eastern European models made these collections made even more relevant in a cute way.
But now that the designers got their fashion inspirations right, they need to get their weather facts straight.
Citing Newsvine: “Kenzo sent out oversized felt coats and voluminous striped knits that were fit for a Siberian winter.”
Here is a photograph of Kenzo outfit taken by style.com’s Marcio Madeira’s (btw, it is modeled by a Belorusian):
Siberia is warming up, but is this fit for a Russian winter? I don’t think so.
