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“The past isn’t dead. It isn’t even past”

 

Fashion week for Autumn-Winter 2012/2013 has already begun, and Jeremy Scott’s A/W 2012 collection entitled “Delete History” blew me away. His vibrant palette, metallic swirling denims and camp graphics were quite theatrical with a peripatetic prance all over sensory overload town, but also very reminiscent of the old Michael Alig 90s ‘club kid’ rave phenomenon. In fact, this is precisely the reason why I’ve decided to pair Jeremy Scott with Leigh Bowery, one of my favorite all around creative icons. I actually think the Scott/Bowery pairing creates for an interesting fashion synergy,  it’s almost hard to separate one from the other, see below…

 

Back to my point, Scott’s eccentric collection takes inspiration from the internet and how we transmit information today. But despite the cartoon references, kitsch emoticons and rainbow bright hair, his collection remains trademark playful with a paradoxical statement about what it means to grow up in the dawn age of the internet pop culture generation. His designs maintain a dated regalia that seems specific to our era, revealing a window into the past through the use of 70s disco colors and 80s sportswear gestures. A qwerty keyboard dress, rainbow faux hair coats, skirts that look like glitter slap bracelets, and a computer desktop printed tracksuit lead us through twenty years of developing technology; into a portal where everything is now just a click away from being plugged.

And just because you can’t wear it, doesn’t mean you can’t like it, even if some of the ideas border on the gimmicky. I say, let the riot of colors, sensation, and oddball silhouettes of Scott and Bowery help conjure your inner cyborg.