Who wouldn’t want to do it in style? Travel that is. After Mr. McQeen ends his turn as the captain of the Samsonite Black Label luggage collaborator, Viktor & Rolf will be bringing the travel heat with a collection of too cute to check-in luggage. The “Happy Travel with Viktor & Rolf” collection is set to be available this Fall 2009. The feeling is very retro, from the bag silhouettes to the jet plane motif, you’re sure to breeze through security in style.
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London’s Barbican Art Gallery is hosting a 15 year retrospective of Viktor & Rolf’s clever, inventive fashion collections. Fifty-five iconic pieces from past collections have been re-created in miniature and are displayed on custom made porcelain dolls. The clothing is replicated - no single detail is left out - even the model’s makeup looks are recreated on the dolls’ faces. Some of the dolls are displayed in a doll house, standing 28 feet tall, complete with spiral staircases and intricately detailed doorways. When asked what it was like to create the doll pieces, “It was like [doing] 30 collections,” says Horsting, explaining some of the patterns and prints had to be redesigned to fit the scale of a doll.”
The show opens on Wednesday, June 18th in London through September 21st. Barbican will also be hosting a Viktor & Rolf shop which will sell the Viktor & Rolf exhibition catalog, as well as limited edition postcards, limited edition versions of their fragrances, and a specially commissioned limited edition scarf designed by Viktor & Rolf. This exhibit is definitely a must see - I really hope this show travels to the U.S.!
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P.S. - the Viktor & Rolf site is amazing - you must check it out!!
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"Not only did Viktor & Rolf say "I do" to a hookup with Hennes & Mauritz, they designed a wedding dress for the occasion.
Taking fast fashion down the aisle into a new frontier, the Dutch design wizards created a silk-and-tulle bridal gown that will retail for 298 euros, or $378, when the one-time Viktor & Rolf for H&M collection hits 250 H&M stores on Nov. 9."
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