What can be more joyous than celebration at the house of
Moschino? 30 years ago the brand was
founded by the never to be duplicated and always fondly remembered Franco
Moschino. He was the rarest of them all as
he was a designer with a sense of humor.
He was a designer when clothes were the rage and super models ruled the
runways as did excess and some of the most talented designers that ever populated
the world of fashion. Having been
fortunate enough to experience the magic of a Moschino show on a first hand and real life basis, it is
with great pleasure that I speak to the Spring 2014 collection.
In true Moschino fashion, the collection is all about “good
girls and bad girls.” It is all rather
simply stated that “good girls” were white or ivory and ”bad girls” wear
black. The characters or cast of the
show is/are made up of all of the
Moschino girls that have appeared in the Moschino collections of times gone by;
the nuns, biker chicks, Chanel ladies, nurse, mousketeers, bikers and chamber
maids to name a few. For some they are
the “icons” of sexual perversity and for Moschino they are the brunt of his fierce
sense of humor.
The Original DNA of the eponymous designer lives on and on
and with the same whimsy as when he was alive especially in this
collection. Oddly, the humor has not
gotten lost in time although I can be reasonably sure that the fassholes who
claim to be the pundits of fashion will find this all too literally retro and
repetitive to positively acknowledge. It
is they who I really feel sorry for as it is they who find their own words more
powerful than the output of a world class designer.
All in all... sit back, enjoy the show and know what the man was about
and why he became the success he was and why the brand continues to sustain
itself built on the his vision and his idea of fashion!
KUDOS to the house for bringing out a memory that befitted
the man ... he would have loved it !!
P.S, the opening and closing feature “his girls” who tore up
the runway in that decade
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pAMBPbK_Ok
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