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...In New York, Rodarte relished the exaggerated feminine — sweeping long black gowns with trailing sleeves veered between the vampiric and the academic; huge lace white collars were reminiscent of choristers...
...There were also fairies, complete with gigantic wings, at Rodarte; aliens with long, spiralling fingernails and toenails at Thom Browne; and dresses fashioned from giant bananas at Area....
...They were accompanied by luxe pyjamas, robes and oversized sweatshirts — not the typical fare of a Rodarte show or lookbook, and a definite nod to the moment....
...In New York, Rodarte’s Kate and Laura Mulleavy finished their show, held under the barrel vault of St....
...“Special pieces” are Rodarte’s bread and butter....
...Arguably, the trend began when LA brand Rodarte used gypsophila in flower crowns and stoles for its Summer 2018 couture show....
...Rodarte vs the rain While guests at the Rodarte ready-to-wear SS19 show may not have been wholly delighted that organisers had made no contingency plans for the weather except to buy a few umbrellas, the...
...At the Spring shows in September, Erdem offered a scholarly vision of Victorian cross-dressing, resplendent with back-skirting bows; Rodarte’s were romantic, scattered over tulle dresses awash with bowknots...
...Rodarte, also returning to New York from Paris, staged a SS19 show in a rain-lashed graveyard. Here, the mood was Southern Gothic — all melancholy beauty and a mille-feuille of frills....
...Rodarte offers romantic floral clips in gold; Simone Rocha has created pearl-encrusted barrettes (from £75) that recall Rubens’ Renaissance portraits; Gucci delivered conspicuously branded tortoiseshell...
...Already, a handful of fashion houses have abandoned its schedule — Alexander Wang, Rodarte, Proenza Schouler and Altuzarra, among them....
...Younger US labels such as Rodarte, Joseph Altuzarra, Alexander Wang and Proenza Schouler are expected to lead a vanguard of houses that will, in June, start showing pre-collections instead....
...Proenza Schouler and Rodarte, American houses with a strong tradition in “couture-like” techniques and savoir faire, were two ready-to-wear houses invited to show their collections in Paris this week....
...New products have flooded stores, including a recent collaboration with Rodarte, which this paper described as selling “extraordinary, delicate, red-carpet worthy dresses and gowns”....
...In a city already depleted by notable absences — Proenza Schouler, Tommy Hilfiger, Rodarte among them — the week was lacking a little razzle. Some days there were barely any shows at all....
...No two shows are exactly alike, though certain designers have retained ongoing themes — his work for the US brand Rodarte generally features neon tubes of light....
...At Rodarte the girls were a dreamy gathering of ethereal beauties in tiered buttercup laces, widow’s weeds and rodeo leathers....
...They follow Rodarte and Proenza Schouler who are also heading across the Atlantic. Is Beckham considering a similar shift? “I’m keeping an eye on things,” said Beckham....
...Rodarte is also absent from the New York schedule — the Mulleavy sisters behind the brand will present their collection through private appointments during Paris Fashion Week, followed by a catwalk show...
...Rodarte was a no-show and Proenza Schouler, for so long the darling of contemporary American design, was saying goodbye to New York: both brands are decamping to Paris....
...There were highly worked floral headpieces (Rodarte), twinkly starlet hairpins (Erdem) and beautifully abstract hair combs (Roksanda)....
...At Kors and Rodarte, silhouettes were cinched at the waist with wide belts held snug on unfriendly pre-lunch notches....
...What the devil is Rodarte? Of the many contemporary luxury brands, it seems the label designed by sisters Kate and Laura Mulleavy illustrates best the great paradox at the heart of fashion week....
...It isn’t just a spring/summer fling, either — the pre-fall and autumn/winter collections featured Gothic nighties (Chanel) and point d’esprit gowns (Rodarte), bringing clothing that was once admired in the...
...But if 2015 was the year of the style biopic, this is the year of the ready-to-wear movie: Tom Ford, the Rodarte sisters (Kate and Laura Mulleavy) and Tara Subkoff (who spent much of the 2000s as half of...
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