I’ve mentioned about how I feel about Kate and Laura Mulleavy of design house Rodarte before (um, they inspire me in every way possible), but this video of their runway show for Fall 2010 gave me total butterflies. I wanted to stand up and cheer them on like I was in the home team stands at a basketball game:“You go, girls!”
Watching the presentation on video, as opposed to just poring over the photos afterward, gave it a new feeling: Rodarte is all about presentation, so the video medium really works in their favor. Each new turn down the runway left me with tingly feelings in my guts. It’s like the music video that you’d analyze over and over again in MTV’s glory days (everything Smashing Pumpkins for me), combined with sumptuous knits and flimsy floral silks, melted into a sticky mass of melting mass of candles. And the music: the playlist kills me. “Sleep Walk” makes me tear up every time I hear it.
Music
Beak / “Blagdon Lake” / Beak
The Flamingos / “I Only Have Eyes For You” / American Graffiti
Santo & Johnny / “Sleep Walk” / Rock Instrumental Classics, Vol.1 : The Fifties
The Fleetwoods / “Come Softly To Me” / The Best of The Fleetwoods
Elvis Presley / “Blue Moon” / Elvis Presley
Ritchie Valens / “Stay Beside Me” / The Best of Ritchie Valens
Link Wray / “Rumble” / Rock Instrumental Classics, Vol.1 : The Fifties
[Via Show Studio. Photos via NY Mag]
This is wonderful!
gorgeous! i loved this so much… the candles were a great touch
the music is great & the dresses – so fantastical. i could use one of those large, cowly, wrap sweaters right now!