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July 29, 2008 12:05 pm
As is the wont of superheroes, the Posso the Spat girls slipped onto the radar in a peculiarly mild-mannered guise. A line of spats hardly seems the likeliest front on which to open a rebellion against by-the-book style—but L.A.-based best friends Vanessa Giovacchini and Marylouise Pels liked spats, and for the past year, spats is what they’ve been up to, along with deejaying nights at sundry top clubs all over the world. There have been ankle spats, and croc spats, and patent leather over-the-knee spats worthy of Catwoman, all of which the Posso ladies have been inclined to wear bare-legged, with short shorts and sandals, the better to show off the spats’ essential spat-ness. Now, however, Giovacchini and Pels are testing the rest of their powers. “It’s all based on quantum physics and our fascination with perfect angles,” explains Pels of the dynamic duo’s new accessories, which debut for fall. “Vanessa drew this shape that felt really futuristic, and so we decided to build a whole range around that one form.” As Giovacchini notes, however, the Posso leather cuffs, belts, and bags also derived their design from interests decidedly present-tense. “There’s a hidden pocket in the cuffs that fit cash and an ID,” she says. In other words: Superheroines need to keep their hands free.
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