Way before Justin Timberlake and the synthesizer, popular music was actually rock ‘n’ roll. Thanks to what Tim Blanks aptly denotes, appropriation, some Fall ’14 fashion collections are doing a throwback Thursday to that old time rock ‘n’ roll.
Two standout collections that embodied pop music (from here on in, when I say pop I mean Ringo not Rihanna) were Slimane’s Saint Laurent and Asatoorian’s Rudsak. Why? In the case of the former, Tim Blanks told me so. The latter was a result of me doing what I do best: extrapolation.
Red leather, red sequins; dark tights, fur and studs. That’s a good enough case for me.
The pop silhouette necessitates – with the utmost adherence to – a micro mini. Where Slimane’s evoked a Warholian mien, Asatoorian had me thinking of a more updated aesthetic, one we’d automatically associate with Lenny Kravitz and a cooler version of Avril Lavigne. This inkling was confirmed by a male model carrying a guitar case down the runway a few minutes later.
Colour was introduced for the first time since I can remember. It came in rich hues: emerald green, bordeaux and navy. And a green leather tie and fedora pairing was everything but a Bruno Mars cliché. In a refusal to be on-trend, Rudsak, in Slimane’s good company, may have carved out a trend of his own.
True or False: I have no idea if Asatoorian has used emerald green before in so much as a button, I just haven’t seen it this pronounced in my memory of Rudsak’s collections. Avril Lavigne may be cool to some people. Lastly, Asatoorian and Slimane have no relation to each other, other than me arguing they do for the sake of supporting my rock ‘n’ roll theory.
