When the average person thinks of haute couture clothing, or luxurious custom designs using mostly extinct techniques, materials, and craftsmanship, they probably dream of pieces made of luxurious silk, supple leather, crystals, and tulle. Sho. Daniel Rosebery reminds you of your old flip phone.
Rosebery, creative director of French fashion house Schiaparelli, unveiled the brand’s 2024 haute couture show in Paris on Monday. Under Rosebery, Schiaparelli’s shows became a hot topic among fashion fans. It’s not just the A-list front rows filled with celebrity clientele, but also the unforgettable wearable sculptures that are endlessly reposted after each show. (Even people who are not very familiar with high fashion may understand this) last year’s lion dress Lady Gaga etc. hunger game-Wind Ensemble It was worn at President Joe Biden’s inauguration ceremony. )
The standouts from this season’s Schiaparelli show are as iconic as they are visually captivating. A life-sized robot baby doll and a short cocktail in his dress, both completely covered in technology waste. Old phones, calculators, wires, motherboards, and CDs are used as decorations, just as sequins and beads adorn less ambitious garments. Roseberry, the infant, alien movies and Said WWD In an age when AI is remixing collections, he says he mined his own memories for inspiration.
The baby and her dress, called Mother, are part human, part object, rising from the past and haunting the future. Assembled using materials from a pre-iPhone era, these parts seem to warn of an inhuman, robot-powered presence. At the same time, it recontextualizes the technological waste of simpler times.
“Now, the technology I grew up with is so outdated that it’s just as difficult to source certain vintage fabrics and ornaments,” Rosebery says. I have written In the program notes.
There’s nothing new about old junk suddenly becoming more valuable and popular. In fact, Rosebery’s work comes at a time when the 2000s nostalgia hype cycle is in full swing. Trends are not just about fashion. Young people are buying old digital cameras, drawn to Myspace’s digital camera aesthetic, they couldn’t survive.in really fun TikTok videos, one user picks up two iPod Nanos and clips them to his hair.someone else has it wall covered with old keyboards. Schiaparelli dress like the early 2000s i spy Pages is just a natural progression of trends.
Every time something that was previously forgotten and discarded gains new interest and enters the market, I think about what I’m going to get back in 20 years. Often our rediscovery has less to do with the practicality of the item (see the iPod Nano hair clip) and more to do with a kind of cultural and social signal. As a new generation scours resale sites, what’s the technology indicator of the 2020s? Maybe it’s this little orange box with a clicky button and a cute name?
My family’s old Canon digital camera doesn’t take any better photos than my iPhone, and in fact, it’s much more difficult to use. Yet I recently dug it out of storage and brought it to a party to take photos of friends and strangers alike. It wasn’t the same as taking a selfie after school and not having it posted to any type of feed. But it was fun to remember and remind others that there was a time when everything was different and I was there too.