Viktor & Rolf Marriage 2017
October 11, 2017 by Joris
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Viktor & Rolf Haute Couture SS 2015
February 6, 2015 by Joris
Filed under Featured Video, Paris, Video
The expressive landscapes of Vincent van Gogh provided the visual cues for giant 3D flowers and enormous straw hats in Dutch fashion house Viktor & Rolf’s Spring Summer 2015 haute-couture collection. Team Peter Stigter went back- and frontstage to capture the moments before and during the fashion show.
Viktor & Rolf Haute Couture Catwalk Fashion Show Paris FW2013
After a 13-year absence designers Viktor & Rolf returned to the stage of Haute Couture in Paris and they went for something altogether more contemplative, but nevertheless magical. Twenty models wearing sculptural black looks – one for each of their 20 years in fashion together – moved at slow pace across a rectangle printed with raked stones, ultimately assembling in five clumps to approximate the famous Zen garden at the Ryōan-ji temple in Kyoto, Japan.
The undulating, organic shapes were all realized in a spongy technical silk and engineered so that the models resembled stones when in the postures necessary to mimic the garden’s composition. It required curved seams, dimpled insets and 1,000 hours in the atelier to create details mimicking grass.
And at second sight the creations were really wearable. The silhouettes were varied and surprisingly fetching when models stood upright, ranging from a regal cutaway coat to a bulbous chubby sprouting those grass-like strands. Dresses had an S-curve in profile, extra fabric bunching at the small of the back and past the knees. When seated on small cushions, the designers arranged the dresses to hide limbs and match the raked patterns around the “stones.”
But Viktor & Rolf wanted to broadcast their more abstract and conceptual ideas instead of making it a commercial success. The fact that half the collection already sold to an unnamed art collector proves that they can still make interesting couture-collections.
Viktor & Rolf Backstage Catwalk Paris SS12
October 4, 2011 by Joris
Filed under Backstage, Featured Video, Paris, Video, womenswear
Dolls inspired the Dutch fashion duo for their spring summer 2012 collection. And for a hair and make-up artist there is no better job than transforming models into modern barbie dolls. And what a beautiful clothes they were wearing! Barbie must have been jealous.
Interview with Dutch fashion model Bette Franke [Dutch]
October 3, 2011 by Joris
Filed under Fashion Professionals, Featured Video, Paris, Video, womenswear
Het Nederlandse topmodel Bette Franke (Wilma Wakker Model Management) zagen we de afgelopen weken weer regelmatig in de grote shows lopen. Net als wij reisde ze van New York naar Londen, Milaan en Parijs en daar konden we haar uiteindelijk bij de show van Viktor & Rolf strikken voor een kort interviewtje.
Viktor & Rolf Catwalk Fashion Show Paris SS2011
October 2, 2010 by Jetty
Filed under Fashion, Featured Items, Paris, womenswear
Today Dutch designer-duo Viktor & Rolf presented a summer collection inspired by the plain white shirt and the striped banker shirt. Two very masculine and minimalistic items, which the designers managed to transform into a very feminine collection.
Their ‘shirt symphony’ started with several blue and white looks. They all had multiple collars and cuffs on them, each one a little bigger than the one before.
Shirt tails for a change were not hidden, but popped up from under the legs of mini shorts at the front and the back. They were extremely long, reaching to the models ankles.
The color palette changed from blue to black, orange and turquoise. Only a few stripes and a zebra print were added, letting the fantastic clothes speak for themselves.
In a few black and white as well as in some turquoise and black designs Viktor & Rolf brought stretch (= tight-fitting) jersey and voluminous shiny silk together in a way only they can do that.
For the finale they even created more volume and took the masculine/feminine theme of their show to its extreme. White bridal gowns came down the runway perfectly matching the soundtrack of the show (Billy Idol – White Wedding). Their lace embroideries, multiple layers, cuffs and collars were a perfect ending of, yet another, great Viktor & Rolf show.