Fashion: Rodarte Spring 2010, "Death Valley, Vultures, Goth Tribal Tats."
Images from the Rodarte Spring 2010 collection. The models were literally "kept under wraps" during smoking breaks before the runway show. "Every model had her arms painted with makeup to appear like tribal tattoes, goth lips, and their hair wrapped in webbed wool." The official Rodarte site is here, but it's a slow-loading Flashblob. There's always Wikipedia. (via @reversecowpie)
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There are THREE Borg queens? Shit!
I don't know what it is about it, but I find fashion designers' interpretations of goth fashion aesthetically repulsive (where well-executed goth fashion, by people who actually wear it on the street, can be quite beautiful).
Anyway, I guess it's an artwork in the medium of clothes, commenting on the LA fires. Perhaps the ugliness is intentional?
I agree Kieran. Later/current goth style is about beauty and subtlety, the mysterious and sensual. Fashion designers for the most part are outsiders who don't really get it. It reminds me of all the movies in the 80's that tried to interpret gang fashion - to anyone from southern california it all looked just ridiculous.
I mean tribal tats? Really? The only people who have tribal tats are frat boy types. Repulsive is a good word, but I think naive, cliché, and trite might be better.
Yeah the Rodarte sisters are amazing. They just keep hitting it home.
15 years since The Crow and that's it?
ooooooooh, how unique and original.....
can anybody come up with an emoticon for rolling eyes?
Aw, man! You guys are such killjoys! I bet you all run around wearing potato sacks and Crocs thinkin' you're hot stuff. The work is lovely, I think. But arguing about it is as futile as debating whether or not Tim & Eric are funny.
Yeah, killjoys, give it up: resistance is futile.
Xeni:
"But arguing about it is as futile as debating whether or not Tim & Eric are funny."
Yea... Post that Tim & Eric Not Funny and you'll have your post REMOVED Here on BoingBoing....
I Should know...
Quick! Someone call the whaaaaambulance!
I bet you all run around wearing potato sacks and Crocs thinkin' you're hot stuff.
They can't hear you. Their popped collars are covering their ears.
There is something interesting about the show, in a Mad Max meets Death Note meets Twilight kind of way, but seriously, coffin kids in any LA goth club have been doing it better for about 20 years now. This wouldn't have even been considered creative in the early 90's, now it's just laughable.
@Xeni: I'm surprised you don't see it. Can't you just hear all the 45 year old ad execs in the audience cooing, "Ooooh, this is the new style! It's so dark and brooding! Just like all those punker or raver or whatever kids!"
I sure can.
I for one find the borg queens pretty fierce.
I have a friend who's a top stylist for celebs and runway shows. He loves to shave models' eyebrows off. These shows are just a glimpse into the fetishes of the stylists.
Want to make a bold fashion statement? Feed the models.
Aaaaaah! Cenobites!
Those models are probably at their ideal BMI. Just because everybody else gained fifty pounds in the last few decades doesn't make them anorexic.
The Mulleavy sister's designs aren't really gothic, they're deconstructed... the 'gothic' part of this collection is the tribal tattoos. Combined with the tartan in the collection, the inspiration is more Beowulf than punk, raver, or goth.
I have to say that for Rodarte this season was lackluster, the last two were much better. If you have any doubts that Rodarte is one of the most artistic design houses today, look up their Fall/Winter 09 collection. (Inspired by insulation materials, apparently)
Wild boys! Wild boys! Wild boys! [a la Duran Duran]
Xn:
"Qck! Smn cll th whmblnc!"
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I know a woman who is naturally about 110 lbs. (actually she fluctuates between 100 and 110, she's about 5' 6") no matter what she eats. Some people are just slight, but in her case it's mainly due to her having been very premature at birth and her mom did drugs and drank and all that while pregnant.
So the girls might be at they're "ideal" BMI, but I'm willing to bet, if that's the case it's due to some abnormality - they're certainly not built the way most women are. Just my personal opinion.
Grymrpr, you're being tedious. Which you are free to do as much as you'd like on your own blog.
BMI is broken. I just want to see curves promoted for once so I don’t have repeat “No, love, your butt is not too big.”. Call me selfish.
My first thought on seeing the photo was "Kneel Before female Zod!"
girl on left = wow.
and I've never seen moderation for disagreement. Disagreeableness, on the other hand.
Dose this mean 90's stuff is coming back? I for one am sick of all this 80's crud.
I am SO getting a mega-pack of Sharpies and doing my arms tomorrow!!
They all look like they went for Klaus Nomi makeovers.
I think if the designer added some ">Sunglasses to the models it would be sooooo gothic. lol
Is it just me or does anyone else find Fashion Copious' headline "Three Girls Muslimed" incredibly, incredibly offensive and insensitive?
I'm not Muslim or even religious at all, but I know disrespect when I see it.
It seems to indicate a certain intellectual immaturity that can be seen in much of the fashion industry.
Set your phasers to a rotating modulation maximum power!
Thanks for the link, Xeni, but I'm going to have to agree with first.
One thing I have always liked about goth is that it's very organic.
It has it's own unique feel that has yet to be really synthesized in any mainstream way.
It also seems to attract nerds.
Outside goth clubs most of the people work in IT, or are artists.
And a big element of it is DIY self-made stuff.
I would like to see more stuff like this on boingboing though.
Hmmm... on the thinness question I have mixed feelings. At 5'10 I'm at a good BMI at 140 lbs, I work out 1 to two hours a day incorporating weight training, cardio, and flexibility because I dance. My measurements, real ones, are about 39, 29, 40. That's 140 lbs up from when I didn't eat through my teens during which time I modeled and weighed about 103 - 110 depending on the year. My measurements then were around 35-37,22-26,37-38 respectively. You can do the math on that. What I will say though is that by current standards I would be considered a "plus size" model, so no, I doubt those girls are at ideal BMI unless they are under 5'8". Just adding my experience to the debate. I, of course, only ate when I was hungry and didn't do much to diet. I had never really bought into the idea of eating. It wasn't until I started getting into fitness that I started to eat. Skinny is relative, at my "peak" I had pronounced spine ridges but I still got work and of course complained about the way people judged the naturally thin. To this day I can't figure out whether I should stop working out and eating to weigh less or if at my age that would just make me look haggard and older than I am.
Either way the shaved eyebrow look is butt ugly and this looks like they threw Billy Idol, male porn start tats, and Winona Ryder in a blender and pressed liquify.
I actually chuckled when Xeni invoked the whaambulance. I don't know why, but it surprised me so made me laugh. Thanks.
I'm not going to diss on the Rodarte guys, but will say that I agree it's not as good looking as the prettier people at the local club. The tribals really are out of place.. While I wouldn't say that frat guys cover themselves in tribals, I would say that not too many goths have them. BUT!! Roadarte didn't say "we're going for goth." Maybe they're going for something else and we're just unhappy because it doesn't fit into our neat little cubbies?
So, on reconsideration, I like it.
I have to agree with several of the above, they look like bad sci-fi villains. Maybe we can set up a triple date with the evil Picard clone from Star Trek Nemesis, Nero from the new Star Trek movie, and Mr. Hand from Dark City.
Is it just me or does anyone else find Fashion Copious' headline "Three Girls Muslimed" incredibly, incredibly offensive and insensitive?
No, it's just you. The rest of us find cultures with norms that include berating women who don't cover up to be incredibly offensive and insensitive.
I'm not Muslim or even religious at all, but I know disrespect when I see it.
Glad you caught on.
It seems to indicate a certain intellectual immaturity that can be seen in much of the fashion industry.
And the kind of person who needs to tell someone else exactly what to wear or say, how mature are they?
some of these dresses actually look pretty similar to something Epperson just did on PR, in my opinion...
#28 Love the reference. Sign me up for that makeover any day.