Vivienne Westwood Watches Reborn!!! (Hah, I wish)
Guess what look Vivienne Westwood (she who inspired Ai Yazawa's designs in NANA) is sporting for fall 2009?
The Hibari armband on a school uniform!!! No joke!!! Look closely at the model's right arm (click on pic to make larger):
I like to think that this girl is the member of a new, extremely fashionable mob family that threatens the Vongola's turf in Japan (and this would be their uniform), and becomes a love interest for Hibari, as she is also an anal-retentive psychotic disciplinarian. The whole episode culminates in a rumble West-Side-Story style, with guns and dancing and awesome powers and a Leonard Bernstein soundtrack and everything wonderful. And in the end new mob fam leaves, but with that "this is definitely not finished" feel to it. Man, that would be awesomely cracked up.
(I suppose it could also be a Haruhi armband, but I instantly though of Hibari, sorry. In short the point is that we all might, in a world where fashion is dictated by people like Westwood, soon be running around dressing like cosplay rejects in our everyday lives. And that is simultaneously fabulous and scary.)
Link found here at NY Mag's site, because they have the best fashion coverage and I am a fashion week whore for some reason) http://nymag.com/daily/fashion/2009/02/new_shows_from_london_vivienne.html
Westwood's whole Red Label collection for Fall 2009: http://nymag.com/fashion/fashionshows/2009/fall/main/europe/womenrunway/viviennewestwoodred/#
And here is a pic of Westwood with her models at the end:
They all look like fabulous disheveled vampires, hah! If you ever need to do disheveled vampire cosplay, you can't go wrong with Westwood. (We have actually created a story where I picture the vampires dress very similar to this, so is fun to see it in the flesh.)
The Hibari armband on a school uniform!!! No joke!!! Look closely at the model's right arm (click on pic to make larger):
I like to think that this girl is the member of a new, extremely fashionable mob family that threatens the Vongola's turf in Japan (and this would be their uniform), and becomes a love interest for Hibari, as she is also an anal-retentive psychotic disciplinarian. The whole episode culminates in a rumble West-Side-Story style, with guns and dancing and awesome powers and a Leonard Bernstein soundtrack and everything wonderful. And in the end new mob fam leaves, but with that "this is definitely not finished" feel to it. Man, that would be awesomely cracked up.
(I suppose it could also be a Haruhi armband, but I instantly though of Hibari, sorry. In short the point is that we all might, in a world where fashion is dictated by people like Westwood, soon be running around dressing like cosplay rejects in our everyday lives. And that is simultaneously fabulous and scary.)
Link found here at NY Mag's site, because they have the best fashion coverage and I am a fashion week whore for some reason) http://nymag.com/daily/fashion/2009/02/new_shows_from_london_vivienne.html
Westwood's whole Red Label collection for Fall 2009: http://nymag.com/fashion/fashionshows/2009/fall/main/europe/womenrunway/viviennewestwoodred/#
And here is a pic of Westwood with her models at the end:
They all look like fabulous disheveled vampires, hah! If you ever need to do disheveled vampire cosplay, you can't go wrong with Westwood. (We have actually created a story where I picture the vampires dress very similar to this, so is fun to see it in the flesh.)