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Comme des Garçons / Fall 2012 RTW

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In a sense, she is right in her assessments of the current situation. Fashion has gotten so big and vast, and so making sense of it all is tricky. Flat LED screens and all-access all the time have resulted in much less depth.

Long Nguyen is the co-founder and style director of Flaunt.

Comme des Garçons / Fall 2012 RTW

see the complete runway photos —>http://missbehavecutie.blogspot.com/

We have all became so blinded by its glossy surface that we can no longer discern real design efforts when we see them. Maybe Ms. Kawakubo was saying that clothes don’t have greater meaning than what we see on screen and on the pages of glossy magazines–but I doubt this was the case.

Long Nguyen is the co-founder and style director of Flaunt.

Comme des Garçons / Fall 2012 RTW

see the complete runway photos —>http://missbehavecutie.blogspot.com/

But in the middle of the show, music came on and models came out in long velvet floral columns with matching face masks used in S & M sex play. Were these S& M masks an indication of how vulgar fashion has become?

Long Nguyen is the co-founder and style director of Flaunt.

 A click of one look to the next is like how a child would paste different garments onto a mannequin’s body (remember that computer program Cher uses to pick out her outfits inClueless?). That’s one way of looking at this show.

Comme des Garçons / Fall 2012 RTW

see the complete runway photos —>http://missbehavecutie.blogspot.com/

This show was intentionally devoid of emotion. As more people experience fashion in the age of the internet, clicking through a show to see each look flat and from the front only–there’s a total disconnect between the clothes and the emotions that come from experiencing fashion in all its dimensions.

Long Nguyen is the co-founder and style director of Flaunt.

Comme des Garçons / Fall 2012 RTW

see the complete runway photos —>http://missbehavecutie.blogspot.com/

There was something cartoonish about the rigid and robotic way the models walked that removed any connection between them and the clothes. It was almost like they were paper dolls, the two-dimensional clothes hooked onto their shoulders.

Long Nguyen is the co-founder and style director of Flaunt.

Comme des Garçons / Fall 2012 RTW

see the complete runway photos —>http://missbehavecutie.blogspot.com/

What to make of it all? What was Rei Kawakubo trying to say here?

Long Nguyen is the co-founder and style director of Flaunt.

Comme des Garçons / Fall 2012 RTW

see the complete runway photos —>http://missbehavecutie.blogspot.com/

She looked like a rocket ready to take off. What followed were variations of this stretched-out flat looking silhouette on jackets, pants, and shorts in vivid reds, aquas, polka dots, florals and camo prints. Shapes were stretched and distorted.

Long Nguyen is the co-founder and style director of Flaunt.

see the complete runway photos —>http://missbehavecutie.blogspot.com/

Not this time. And what a surprise it was when the first model climbed onto the runway in complete silence so the sounds of her boots hitting the wood echoed around the high ceiling room. She was wearing an oversized bright red wool coat that flared out at the hips, her hands hidden under extra-long sleeves. 

Long Nguyen is the co-founder and style director of Flaunt.

Comme des Garçons / Fall 2012 RTW

see the complete runway photos —>http://missbehavecutie.blogspot.com/

PARIS–Normally on the way into a Comme des Garçons show we’re given a tip, a clue, a key to understanding the show we’re about to see. Sometimes it’s just one word, like last season’s ‘white.’

Long Nguyen is the co-founder and style director of Flaunt.

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