How Trends Are Born: The Short Version

Sep 17, 2007 @ 1:49pm

We love the Isabel Toledo quote, "trends are for amateurs," but today a Vogue UK editor told us something we might like better:

"You know the reason Christopher Kane's dresses are so short?" She asked.

"It's because he's poor. He can't afford to waste a single inch of fabric, and everything needs to be mini."

She raised this point during Louise Goldin's show, when the young designer's knits barely covered her models' butts.

We liked the show, which looked like Nu Rave Missoni (Hilary Alexander nodded when we gave her this assessment, so we'll keep it).

We also like this theory about short hemlines and young (or just broke) designers, as it gives a strange style power to those designers with lots of vision, but no money.

Now just wait for TopShop to glom onto the silhouette so those shoppers with vision, but no money, can also have some power.

posted by rachel

Sep 17, 2007 2:07PM

I LOVE HIS DESIGNS!!!!!!!

posted by rachel

Sep 17, 2007 2:35PM

oops i am a dork. i love louise's designs above too, which is what i meant.....this is what happens and i am at work, and i sneak off to see your site, and i skim through things and miss parts....

posted by sfl

Sep 17, 2007 3:01PM

nu rave missoni - i love it!

posted by guest

Sep 17, 2007 3:02PM

i love the lady feeding her baby in the front row!!!

posted by i dont just like you. i like you, like you.

Sep 17, 2007 4:53PM

im loving everything!!!

posted by Brittany

Sep 17, 2007 7:07PM

I am in love with those dresses! I would wear everything in a second.

posted by Mort

Sep 17, 2007 9:08PM

This collection has a very strong Balenciaga feel about it, which I am distinctly uncomfortable about.

Go back and have a look at his Spring/Summer 2003 and Spring/Summer 2004 collections people! The similarities are unmistakable.

posted by K

Sep 17, 2007 10:40PM

That's how the mini was born, in a way. Hemlines were always long until about WWI. Cotton was scarce and needed for the troops, so the girls back home started showing a little more leg. Thus came the flappers, and fashion was forever changed. During the '40s and '50s, women wore longer hemlines to show wealth.

Ah! the things you learn in History of Women.