Saturday, October 30, 2010

raindrops on roses

An anniversary of twenty years in the business calls for celebration in the style of a birthday because this year that's how old Tsumori Chiasto is in fashion. Hip hip hurray, her SS11 collection is a round up of all of her favourite things and the dreamy colours and magical shapes amalgamate in sparkling style. As kawaii as can be, there are manga style girly dresses abound with sequined illustration prints of leopards running wild on imaginary pastel landscapes.

Half of the pieces in the collection are based on black and that's great because black's black and that's that. The other half look like they stole the wallpaper from a baby's nursery to use as their material, which confuses me as in theory it should look ridiculous but in effect I actually quite like it and I'm trying to decide why. Perhaps it's the soft flowing shapes or maybe it's the delicate colours that bring to mind happy thoughts of Polly Pocket and My Little Pony and such like... What do you think? Do you like them?

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