“Let’s say there was a little girl, and from the time she could understand, she was taught to fear… let’s say she was taught to fear daylight. She was taught that it was her enemy, that it would hurt her. And then one sunny day, you ask her to go outside and play and she [...]

“There was a sparkling, illuminated runway in which two sinister, robotic movie cameras on gigantic black booms ran back and forth, while a screen played Knight’s video of Raquel Zimmermann, lying on sand, naked, with snakes writhing across her body.Then the models came out, dressed in short, reptile-patterned, digitally printed dresses, their gangly legs sunk [...]

Uh. I’m so obsessed with this collection and these self-taught sisters! “Kate and Laura Mulleavy have indeed crafted their own baroque dream world (cue the dry ice that created a poison mist over a runway strewn with black grit). It’s an imaginary world that’s ferocious rather than precious, not to mention ferociously influential. And with its [...]

I loved this show! This just might be my favorite of all the Spring RTW 2010 collections. I love the disco balls. I love the glowing models. I love the charisma and energy. I love that for once, you don’t have to turn solely to Betsey Johnson for fun on the catwalk. I love the [...]

“For Spring, Decarnin brought out another whammy of a no-brainer blockbuster: disco cavewoman goes to the front. His army of sizzling, sleek-limbed supergirls strode out with huge-shouldered, metal-epauletted military tailcoats. Their T-shirts were tattered; bullet belts were slung around artfully “destroyed,” stained, and holed jeans or, yet more sensationally, minute, hypersexed, raggedy suede and leather [...]

Also, if you haven’t picked up a copy of her short story collection… … you simply MUST! It’s one of my very favorite books!