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Clarks is “Coming Up Roses” with Martine Rose

“Coming Up Roses” takes a padded approach to the silhouettes in the collection, bringing a sense of ostentatious excess and playfulness to seemingly mundane pieces. This approach is precisely why the collection works so well. Clarks, as a house that has perfected its craft over decades — or centuries, for that matter, given its founding in 1825 — provides an incredibly stable foundation as a brand for a creative innovator like Rose to take risks. The collection also benefits from a healthy dose of nostalgia, taking great inspiration from Clarks’ iconic 80s ad campaigns. Rose also reflects on her own nostalgia for the brand and her early adolescent experiences with it, making the collaboration one that is not only incredibly vibrant but also earnestly sentimental.

Rose echoes this sentiment with her personal recollections, adding a layer of sincerity to the mix. She explains, "The collection was about comfort and this overblown feeling of softness and squidginess, so it felt easy and natural to create that feeling around bedding. It’s all about engaging with people, using memory and familiarity as a way of connecting. Clarks is such a familiar household name, it’s been a part of all of our lives so there’s an automatic intimacy that you have by default from Clarks being in your life for so long. Everything from start to finish has been with the broadness of the mainstream in mind."

The collection was about comfort and this overblown feeling of softness and squidginess, so it felt easy and natural to create that feeling around bedding.

Shop the Clarks and Martine Rose “Coming Up Roses” collection here.

Fashion

Wiederhoeft's Mythology

February 15, 2024

Jackson Wiederhoeft is no stranger to theatrics. Some critics have argued that he refuses to let the clothes speak for themselves, using dance and performance to augment the presentation. This season, in his AW24 collection, “Secret Room,” Wiederhoeft silences the naysayers in a display that’s the perfect balance between romantic and eerie. Compared to previous seasons, the presentation aimed to be closer to a traditional runway setting. But, as we’ve seen from his bridal collections, the Wiederhoeft attempt at “traditional” still leaves us some room for excitement.

This wasn’t your mother’s catwalk — in a presentation that was more aligned with salon-style shows, models emerged from a heavy mist and twisted and turned around guests, maintaining eye contact and using subtle ballerina-esque gestures to explore the space and their bodies within it. Sorry Naomi, we know you said to never touch the dress, but quite literally, everyone was “feeling themselves.” And for good reason.

By Izzy Capulong
Photography by Matt Weinberger

In true Wiederhoeft fashion, everything was corseted. Nothing was safe, no waistline left undefined. Even what would normally be considered “men’s” looks, Wiederhoeft cinches in. One of my favorite looks involved a boxy high-waisted trouser with some cheeky sequined handprints placed strategically on the back. Playing with feathers, veils, and giant flowers, Wiederhoeft puts a modern spin on what we imagine would have been worn in the high society of Old New York, paying homage to a decadence seemingly of a bygone era without making attempts to return to it. Wiederhoeft is not looking back.

The final Wiederhoeft look is always a bride — this season was no different — teardrop crystals, shattered pearls, and a dramatic draped train that dragged the fog across the floor. The bride facelessly disappearing into the blue mist created an image reminiscent of the story of Orpheus and Eurydice. Some people say that he turned around, not because he was foolish or fearful, but because it is in his memory of her where their love is strongest. But the Wiederhoeft bride does not turn to look at us one more time — we see her, moving forward, unrelenting, and not looking back. Wiederhoeft refuses to live only in memory.

Fashion

AMOR PROHIBIDO

February 15, 2024

Pensamientos reprimidos que con tanta presión formaron una piedra en un diamante, se encuentran hoy como un espejo haciendo que voltees primero a verte a ti, símbolos eternos que aveces acompañan. eres parte de esto y tienes que encontrarte aquí, si lo prohibido a sido solo la forma de darte placer. así se muestra lo que no se debe de ocultar, el sol pegando en la piel, sin miedo a ser quemado cargando con lo que es, lo que nunca se debe de olvidar. si estos sentimientos no los puedes sentir ahora, te doy una semilla que puedas sembrar, tardará lo que tenga que tardar porque así es. cuando ya haya crecido esa flor vuelve, y enséñame las cosas aveces no se sienten tan rápido y tienes que esperar para poder comprender que aveces los ojos nos mienten y la belleza se esconde te prometo que muchas veces mis sueños solo te los contaré a ti ajeno a esto las realidades que casi no se cuentan, esas que los demás piensan que solo son piedras.

Text BRUJO LATINO
Starring BACO ADOLESCENTE, BLEINER ARROYAVE, BRIAN FONTANA @ mmrunway

Photography by DAVID MESA
Styling by JAVIER BARRERA
Photo Assistance by MICHELLE A. HERRERA
Production BRIAN FONTANA

Repressed thoughts that with so much pressure formed a stone into a diamond, they meet today like a mirror making you turn first to see yourself, eternal symbols that sometimes accompany you are part of this and you have to find yourself here if the forbidden has only been the way to give you pleasure, this is how what should not be hidden is shown, the sun hitting the skin, without fear of being burned carrying what is, what should never be forgotten. If you can't feel these feelings now, I give you a seed that you can sow, it will take as long as it has to because that's how it is. When that flower has grown it comes back and shows me things. Sometimes they don't feel so fast and you have to wait to understand that sometimes our eyes lie to us and beauty hides. I promise you that many times I will only tell my dreams to you, oblivious to this are the realities that are hardly told, those that others think are just stones.

DRESS by GIPSY, BALACLAVA by MARCO JUTH, BAG by ICEBLADE

CAP by ARLETTE, T-SHIRT, SKIRT & BELT by WAREHOUSE RENTAL

HOODIE by GIPSY, ARMOR by BARRGAN, JEANS by Y-PROJECT, SHOES by MARGIELA

CAP by ARLETTE, UNDERWEAR by MOSCHINO, ARMOR by BARRAGAN, JEANS by Y-PROJECT, SKIRT and BELT by WAREHOUSE RENTAL

BALACLAVA by MARCO JUTH, DRESS by GIPSY, BAG by ICEBLADE, SHOES stylist's own

CAP by ARLETTE, T-SHIRT, SKIRT & BELT by WAREHOUSE RENTAL

JEANS by Y-PROJECT, ARMOR by BARRAGAN x ICEBLADE

HOODIE by WAREHOUSE RENTAL, SHOES by MARGIELA (left); CAP by PALIDA STUDIOS, TOP by BARRAGAN, SKIRT by TANAMACHI, SHOES by MARGIELA, PANTS by WHR (middle); TOP PALICATE by SANCHEZ-KANE, WHITE SHIRT by TANAMACHI, BASEBALL SHIRT as SKIRT by THE PACK, SHOES by CRUDA (right)