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February 18, 2009 7:32 pm
No gowns! No gowns? No gowns. Such was the chatter at the Rodarte show yesterday, for indeed, there were no gowns. Kate and Laura Mulleavy sent out a series of ultra-short dresses worn with over-the-knee, up-the-hip bondage boots by Nicholas Kirkwood—and that was it. “We had the gowns,” said Laura after the show. “We made them. But we really felt like this season, it was about one silhouette. The gowns would have diminished the impact.” Got it. Now, about that silhouette: Is this Rodarte’s riposte to the (sigh) recession? Think about it—in the new economy you only get one look. One dress, one sick pair of boots. (And maybe some T-shirts.) “Yeah, no, that wasn’t on our minds at all,” noted Kate. “But it has some merit as an idea,” she offered. “What, having one pair of boots that you wear every day?” asked Laura, stepping back into the conversation after saying goodbye to pal Elijah Wood. “Yeah,” replied Kate, mulling it over. “No,” she decided. “One boot is fine for a show, but frankly, I’d never be able to adhere to it in practice.”
tags: Elijah Wood, Kate Mulleavy, Laura Mulleavy, Rodarte
