Monday, 18 February 2013

The Circus of Fashion

Left: The Vogue Japan editor-at-large Anna Dello Russo in an Alexander McQueen dress and sunglasses. Right: Bryanboy, a blogger, in Maison Martin Margiela headwear.


The street-style magnet Ulyana Sergeenko, who often changes outfits multiple times a day, twirls for the cameras during Paris’s fashion week last September.
Today, the people outside fashion shows are more like peacocks than crows. They pose and preen, in their multipatterned dresses, spidery legs balanced on club-sandwich platform shoes, or in thigh-high boots under sculptured coats blooming with flat flowers.
There is likely to be a public stir when a group of young Japanese women spot their idol on parade: the Italian clothes peg Anna Dello Russo. Tall, slim, with a toned and tanned body, the designer and fashion editor is a walking display for designer goods: The wider the belt, the shorter and puffier the skirt, the more outré the shoes, the better. The crowd around her tweets madly: Who is she wearing? Has she changed her outfit since the last show? When will she wear her own H&M collection? Who gave her those mile-high shoes?!

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