For many who don’t take into account style an artwork, one query when wanting on the Viktor & Rolf Fall Winter 2024 couture assortment could be: Is anybody going to significantly put on that?
Elle Goulding at Viktor & Rolf present.
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Among the many attendees at Wednesday’s present had been Ellie Goulding, Coco Rocha, Jordyn Woods, Araya Hargate, Emma Brooks and Yusra Mardini.
Founders Viktor Horsting and Rolf Snoeren are identified for his or her avant-garde luxurious style, together with attaching deeper meanings to collections. The pair have put out collections of up-side-down robes and bathing fits with worded messages, and the brand new assortment isn’t any completely different. In its essence, the gathering is about expressing absurdism.
The duo’s absurdism deliberately is aware of no bounds, as the gathering notes clarify “take the silhouette to the utmost.” Going again into their archives for inspiration from their “Atomic Bomb” assortment from Fall Winter 1998, each Viktor and Rolf famous how the human kind has developed during the last 26 years.
“The human physique intersects with three-dimensional, summary geometric shapes like cubes, triangles and spheres — constructing blocks drawn from the realms of constructivism and cubism, in addition to from a toddler’s block set,” the designers’ notes state.
Within the present, fashions emerged onto the runway in colourful seems to be with boxed shoulders and geometric shapes that featured shoulder pads, collars, panniers, noticeable necklines and uneven silhouettes, making for a really angular and kinesthetic runway. The present’s lighting was fluttered, virtually panic-like, accompanied by a monosyllable human voice soundtrack.
The style home collaborated with Christian Louboutin for the completed customized heels within the coloration satin, and with Falke for the polka dot tights, which added one other layer to the summary nature of the collaboration.