Postmodern School Girl Skirt
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A look at a couple of postmodern couturiers:
Then there’s the question of wearability. Even after a dress is finished, the partners look for ways to make it easier to strut around in. Bonet’s Babydoll Dress is a deliberate pun on another popular ’60s shift, a dark turn away from little-girl innocence with its chains of eerie, hand-sculpted clay baby masks, linked with stainless steel rings and diaper pins. It took Bonet almost six months to complete, but she now talks of resculpting the faces in a lighter, more flexible material. “It’s more of a showpiece than a wearable piece, and that bugs me,” she says, watching a model negotiate the weighty, avant-garde armature