I Want to Live in the World
October 12th, 2008 by wendie
where I can wear Day-Glo diaphrams and call it art. This Agatha Ruiz de la Prada dress walked the runway at Dfashion in Mexico City this week.
Below, many more fun dresses that I just love to look at. No idea if the designer intended these to be wearable but I’m thinking no.
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October 12th, 2008 at 2:30 pm
That was incredible! I loved all of it.
October 12th, 2008 at 2:31 pm
wow, this is a fun collection
October 12th, 2008 at 2:39 pm
Makes me think I want some rainbow sherbert.
October 12th, 2008 at 2:46 pm
This looks like something in a Dr Seuss book! Total coolness!
October 12th, 2008 at 2:47 pm
Great, clowns can now wear couture clothing!
October 12th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
Haha at Elayne’s comment! That dress makes her look sooo tall!
October 12th, 2008 at 2:54 pm
i can’t seem to understand the construction of that dress, i so want to know how all those different colour parts are attached
nice pick, wendie, that’s the most mind-blowing dress of them all
October 12th, 2008 at 3:09 pm
I looked at every single picture, and Im sorry but not ONE of these models has a pretty face. Not one.
Beer me five!
October 12th, 2008 at 3:15 pm
Excellent!
I’m digging the Queen Amidala-esque headgear.
October 12th, 2008 at 3:32 pm
nina garcia would not approve!
October 12th, 2008 at 3:35 pm
Skye—I guess body not beauty matters when you’re a runway model.
October 12th, 2008 at 3:36 pm
Ew nevermind Skye you’re right! I posted the first comment before looking at the pictures. Where did they find these girls???
October 12th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
I showed this to my 6 yr old daughter & she LOVED all of them. She must have said cute, cool & awesome 100 times! She also said it reminded her of Dr. Seuss (she’s reading a book now!) And she asked me if I’d buy her shoes that looks like those girls shoes!
October 12th, 2008 at 4:23 pm
I’m Spanish - as Agatha. She is well-known in Spain for being married to a strange guy, but mostly for the fashion collections she always releases. Her clothes for adults are very colourful and many people wouldn’t wear them (although they’re nowhere as weird as the clothes in her fashion shows!!), but her collections for kids are amazing. I used to have clothes of her
October 12th, 2008 at 7:48 pm
I guess I don’t get it?
Aren’t runway shows supposed to showcase your clothes in order to get people to buy them?
These are neat, but I’d never check anything else of hers out by looking at these. I’d be afraid she’d just make me look like a retarded clown.
October 12th, 2008 at 9:07 pm
I agree with Anne. What is the point of this show and these dresses? How does this designer make a living? And yea, most of these models are butt ugly.
October 12th, 2008 at 9:44 pm
“Day-Glo diaphrams” — ha ha!
October 12th, 2008 at 10:06 pm
These dresses are fascinating. I’m printing the pictures to use for…something, not quite sure yet, but it will be amazing!
October 13th, 2008 at 12:18 am
Fashion designer : “hey Cyril , last night I got absolutely wasted,stoned and off my rocker on a batch of this bad LSD and decided to whip up these really kooky goofy outfits! ….so what I wanna know is how many of those air-head models you reckon have the kahonies to wear them down the runway??”
Fashion designer`s friend Cyril : “all of `em!”
October 13th, 2008 at 2:01 am
Diaphragm
October 13th, 2008 at 2:34 am
Going crazy with colors and silhouettes is no excuse for construction and execution that look like a craft project. These “dresses” look like they were designed and sewn by a class of kindergartners. This is not fashion. Whoever made the Nina Garcia comment was spot on.
October 13th, 2008 at 2:39 am
Several of these models look like they’re actually enjoying the show and smiling! I don’t think I’ve seen that before on a runway, they usually look all stern and PMSing and like they’re too concentrated on walking right to crack a smile…
October 13th, 2008 at 4:20 am
Many of the models and much of this collection reminds me of Janice Dickinson.
October 13th, 2008 at 7:05 am
Agatha wears them herself
her hubby used to be directing a famous spanish newspaper
and she also has a line of products for decorative purposes
linens, clothes for kids, etc
October 13th, 2008 at 8:48 am
cojones
October 13th, 2008 at 9:41 am
I found myself giving each dress a nickname: the Pinata, the Clown, the Table, the Bow-Tie, the Toilet Brush, the Art Project, the Car Shades ….
ps: Runway fashion is supposed to be over the top; it always has been. The ready-to-wear versions of these same clothes would be much more subdued.
October 13th, 2008 at 9:49 am
fug.
October 13th, 2008 at 11:51 am
I like this attempt to bring like what 17th century bubble skirts in combo with say early 1980s primary colors. An interesting idea in theory, not so much in actual context.
And yes, if I saw someone wearing one of those outfits, I’d totally ask how long the circus was in town…
October 13th, 2008 at 8:11 pm
This lady makes beatiful pencils, schollbags and such, but real clothing…..to clownish for me and the world