Some Interesting and Extravagant Looks of The Year
The end of the year is time to take stock, and if magazines are full of top tens, we want to propose you an overview of the most extravagant looks of the year. We obviously start from them, the queens of eccentric, that couldn’t be left behind: Lady Gaga and Nicki Minaj that seem on a competition for the subject. Let’s do it odd.
On one side, Miss Germanotta shows a total black look, with goth-burlesque references, slightly S/M for a mistress outfit made of leather, human-hair and imagination. For Nicki Minaj, a big potiche with an emerald green skirt, a black undershirt made of lace, Granny’s doily-style, and a candy hat Katy Perry-style. In the end, a precious and nice Faberg little egg.
Jessie J has instead chosen a classic, or even lyric, outfit: a Wagner-like dress, like a cyberpunk Valk’re, with black tulle transparencies, half way between Stella McCartney and Capitan Harlock. The iconic and volcanic Daphne Guinnes amazes us with a magnificent and vaguely pagan, turning in the goddess Bastet, of Egyptian memory, by wearing a veil/shroud. The bag looking like a Canopus vase hasn’t been found yet.
And if Katy Perry has fun with the long play record, Anna Dello Russo, the Fashion Director of Vogue Japan, proposes herself as a possible testimonial of Rothschild Bank, Michelle Harper prepares herself to the possible storms with a oilcloth/cloth two in one. When she wears it, it gives the impression of an action figure inspired to a geisha manga; when she takes it off, it can be a cosy tablecloth for parties. Helena Bonham Carter makes tulle random, and fabrics becomes a potpourri of colours that match with the inevitable bi-colours shoes, while Dolly Parton treats herself with the acetate pink that brings us back to the 70s. The wrong ones we mean.
A short mention for the knee-length skirt of Shingai Shoniwa, half way between the hi-tech and the post-it (but the flower accessories dim everything oh, how they do.) And in all of this, we have to mention the real protagonist of this 2011, the Union Jack, that really made a great comeback on the catwalks, and that we see here worn by the PVC socialite Pandemonia, with extreme ease, and with a less grace by Paloma Faith, maybe because of the matching sock and the bun of hair, granny-style. But, finally, love for the mother country is not to be disputed right?