One of my favorites, a sequined dripping ice cream cone"More is more" is always the philosophy at Ashish, and for Spring 2010, it looks as if a Miami Club Kid has raided the closet of a Boca Raton Grandma. The collection, which is shamelessly sweet-toothed and kitchy, somehow incorporates ice cream cones, tie-dye sequined pants, pink flamingos and palm trees all at once. Even though Ashish Gupta is based in London, he often freely adopts international (and many American) icons into his semiotic vernacular, translating them into something that looks familiar, but feels entirely different from how you remembered it to be. Classic images of the Statue of Liberty or the Mona Lisa are filtered through a kaleidoscopic lens, and covered in sequins. In fact, I haven't seen so many bright colors in one place since I stopped collecting Lisa Frank stickers as a child. Maybe that's why there's something oddly comforting about it all, like the thrill of sugar rush after eating too many pixie-sticks. Some things are best when they lack moderation.
A Pop Art rendition of the Mona Lisa
The new Ashish x Topshop gold platform wedges. I wonder if they're going to create as much of a frenzy as last season's collaboration.
Two trends for the price of one: spikes + shoulderpads
A closeup
This Miami sunset seriously hearkens back to my days of collecting Lisa Frank stickers
-Tiffany
No comments:
Post a Comment