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February 13, 2008 10:12 am
For his Fall ‘08 collection, Marios Schwab collaborated with London-based artist Tom Gallant, whose key creative interests are pornography and Victorian collecting culture. The jumping-off point? Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s 1892 feminist horror novel, “The Yellow Wallpaper,” which chronicles a woman’s postpartum unraveling. “I read the book three months before the show. The collection was made in quite a rush,” Schwab confessed. “But I was inspired. I love empowered women. I want to dress them and I admire them.” Lit-crit aside, were the 29 looks Schwab sent down the runway—some topped with a layer of fraying wallpaper-patterned fabric designed by Gallant—in step with the Virago Modern Classics edition of Gilman’s gothic masterpiece that Schwab placed as gifts for the front row? Vanity Fair’s Michael Roberts thought so. “Were they literally references?” he said. “I had no idea. I just loved the silhouette.”
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