Roses were everywheregrandparents, parents, sisters, brothers, cousins, and her children.
Because here was Martine Rose serving drop-dead elegant fashion.
And thenanother surpriseshe did the show again for the fashion crowd tonight.
Which is how clothes can make you feel transformed.
I really think this is a message now: to make something that felt joyful.
I always talk about community a lot.
This was not the streetwear take you might expect of Martine Rose.
Something else was happening: wrapping, draping, and asymmetry.
First, it was with mens technical jackets or shirts recut almost like ponchos.
Then the womenswear: a satin-edged blanket was turned into a chic one-sleeved tunic, worn over leather jeans.
A body-celebrating black leather dress came sexily draped and knotted about the wearer.
Martine Rose already occupies a highly regarded place as a major influence on mens fashion.
This show demonstrated those powers all over againwho else couldve come up with that furry brown lurex pinstriped coat-suit?
But with this collectionwith its incredibly cool eleganceshe showed that shes easily as inspirational a leader in womens fashion.
The trouble with that is that it causes paralysis, dullness, and a downward spiral in desirability.
On all kinds of levels, shes a woman who shines.
