Viktor and Rolf Haute Couture Spring 2018 Review

Thank you to Steph Irwin for the review of the Viktor and Rolf Spring 2018 Haute Couture show! Steph Irwin: https://www.instagram.com/stephieirwin/?hl=en https://soundcloud.com/fashionoriginators https://www.fashionoriginators.com/ HauteLeMode: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hautelemode/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/HauteLeMode Tumblr: http://hautelemode.tumblr.com Music: https://soundcloud.com/user-817107625/isodoped "Like other names on the schedule this week, Viktor & Rolf put out a pretty collection. The dimensional daisies on a tunic, vibrant striped blazers, and graphically patterned column dresses made for a far more photogenic statement than last season’s flight jacket iterations topped with oversize doll heads. But as with all things proposed by Viktor Horsting and Rolf Snoeren, this prettiness came with a twist: Everything you see is made from technical duchesse satin. Call it their mono-material collection. Compared to what they’ve done previously, the concept doesn’t seem that remarkable—or even unprecedented; it wasn’t that long ago that they created a collection exclusively from Dutch wax textiles. But as the duo explained backstage, after several seasons of working with recycled fabrics indiscriminately, this self-imposed constraint addressed their interest in conscious design from a different direction; if they wanted to make a print or create an embroidery, they had to rethink the possibilities of the fabric. Put another way, they had to design thei