08 May 2013

J W Anderson's Domesticity (posted on 19/08/2012)



"I didn't want people to like (the collection) straightaway", says J W Anderson in an interview with US ELLE's Nick Axelrod for his article The Life Domestic on the newcomer.
Quite obvious.
I, and I am hoping very strongly, that you, dear chicette, dislike these constructs very much from first sight too.
What looks like a cross between The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo's Lisbeth Salander dressed by Junya Watanabe on a sci-fi trip to meet The Silence of the Lambs' Hannibal Lector, is simply a man-repelling affront to the fashionable among us.
Though Anderson seemed to have been genuinely inspired by all things domestic -that is why he designed aprons and bibs, which take this into the über-literal here- he believes naively that he nevertheless designed outfits that truly play on the idea of humor having referenced the domestic in daywear.
Seriously?
To me his designs merely look like cheaper copies of the true masters such as Yohji or Junya.

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