There's a theory of trend development that says innovators find their inspiration at the farthest edges of what's currently unpopular. So, if you want to be ahead of the curve for the next big thing in fashion, you have to think about what looks terrible right now. What clothing is hanging unloved and unbought at thriftstores, or is hidden away in boxes in the basement? That's next year's runway. I'm clinging to this theory, because it's the only thing that can explain the overwhelming horror of Chloe Sevigny's new collection for Opening Ceremony. How else did the most trendsetting store in North America and a woman famous for prescient style end up with a collection of clothing last seen at my junior high school dances, with a bit of 90210 thrown in? Click 'lookbook' in the upper right corner and check out the future.
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pls no pls no pls no pls no pls
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I guess the 60s, 70s and 80s have been done to death so it's time to re-hash the 90s already and I was going to let them have their ugly fun until I saw the Cramps shirt. I love that band and they have nothing to do with this 90210-styled disaster.
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Makes perfect sense to me.
90210 is coming back to the CW just in time!
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And yet she has been featured in US Vogue SO many times. I don't get it.
However, a tiny part of me is envious of her ability to wear a floral bodysuit without giggling.
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maybe it's just me, but i LOVE how uncomfortable the whole collection makes me feel. weird flashes of skin and oddly both tight and loose.
sorry, it rules
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When I saw I mostly hated it...but.
In the NYT today there's a feature about Opening Ceremony and it happened to mention that the Sevigny collection is nearly sold out.
So there's that.
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ooh, thanks for the tip! I'm heading over to read it now...
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FANTASTIC collection! And I love that so many people here hate it! Looks like something right out of her closet. Perfect! And I especially love the graphic treatment on the lookbook! Bad-photocopy-gone-good!
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I liked almost all of it, but I'm old enough not to be sensitive about the recent past. I watch fashion to see how it's dealing with the new shape of the general public's bodies. All the baby doll/empire waists clearly concealed the big bulges-- these fashions don't, so probably won't catch on.
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ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
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Dear god no.
The florals have died and been laid to rest. They seriously can't ever be cool.
Please?
I can almost handle the rest, as long as the florals don't return..
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is it a retaliation saying that hi end fashion doesn't matter in today's society? that what we wear daily is true fashion, Fashion should be pleasing to the eye AND work well in any environment and that the fashion industry should follow suit and not be displeasing just to displease?
Or was this the result of a bad trip?
All in All I can see maybe taking a few things away here and there, (which most people do to bring out their own sense of fashion) And it does have that Betsey Johnson feel, but some of it ranks up there with short kids wearing 5X Magenta tees.
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This should be filed under BAD IDEAS.
I'd love to be a fly on the wall in the boardroom when they decided to give this project the green light... come to think of it, they probably don't have a boardroom at this place... well, whatever, I would love to have overheard the pitch for it anyway.
"So, if you want to be ahead of the curve for the next big thing in fashion, you have to think about what looks terrible right now."
SO true. It's all about the silouhette as well. Flare/Bootcup vs. Skinny jeans, Shoulder pads vs. normal shoulders, big hair vs. normal hair
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Is it me being silly, or did they remove the lookbook?
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Thanks, Brooke. It looks like it has been removed to make way for the new new thing - an Acne store opening and their new Maui and Sons collection (another junior high flashback!). The picture should be available on a quite a few sites, though - a lot of people really hated those clothes.
Which is kind of funny, because my opinion has actually softened from the initial floral legging-induced horror.
I wouldn't actually wear any of those clothes, but that's entirely beside the point, because they're not for me. They're for people far more willing to take fashion risks than I. And there are enough of those people that the store was cleaned out in less than a month. They'll be out in full force this spring and summer, wearing high-waisted paints and floral dresses and somehow making it work. And then someone will produce a toned-down version, and it will eventually make it's way to the mall. But you'll hardly recognize it once Banana Republic is making a work-friendly version. So everyone can stop worrying about the 90210 look taking over.
I visited the Los Angeles location of Opening Ceremony late last year and I loved it. There was almost nothing that I would have worn, but I loved looking at their clothes as pieces of art and as signposts of where things are going. I wouldn't ever wear a sweatshirt with a Madonna-style cone bra sewn on the front, but I thought it was a hilarious idea. And the miniskirt designed to look like a 45rpm single was too short to leave the house in, but I wanted to buy it and frame it because it was so clever. So, from a design point of view, it was worthwhile even for a untrendy creature like myself.
To sum: yay hardcore fashion kids and deranged designers, yay Opening Ceremony, nay high-waisted floral leggings.
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terrible...
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