WARNING: Multiple mega unhealthy "OHMAHGOD"s in this post! Atheists, Agnostics, Pious (people),
Hypertensive (people), Stressed out (people), Fat (in case you get too
hyped up and die. Wait I'm fat... so... ...) (people) and other groups
of people watch out! Bobo is not responsible for cardiac arrests,
suffocations, hallucinations, compulsive eating, etc caused in the
course of this blog post.
OHMAHGOD people! I'm speechless! AND NO! Not speechless in a good way! Speechless as in my voicebox got infected and if I don't
shut up I'll explode and I can never speak again! ARGH! It's probably
because I sleep with my mouth open! Hahaha I'm surprised a cockroach
hasn't been down there yet! WAIT! NO NO! I blame this all on Imogen
Heap! Yea gurl! Your songs are so friggin awesome I can't stop singing
along to them! And by the way I listen to them 4 hours a day. On repeat.
Your fault Imogen!
2nd OHMAHGOD! I haven't yet gotten the May Issue of Elle Singapore!!! ARGH! *No Bobo isn't THAT dumb as to have
forgotten...* Everyone has been asking me about it... and I'm like speechless!
It's yet to reach the newsstands I think! Poop.
-Okay this is probably God's way of getting back at me... but!-
3rd OHMAHGOD! The ASH-cloud may have engulfed Europe... but last night, Singapore too, was engulfed by ASH...ley
ISHAM and his fashion show!!! Ha. Ha. Ha. *God I'm so lame!* Or at
least that was the plan! Until the stoopid, malicious ASH-cloud
decided to ground our ASH-ley Isham in London! Boohoo. I wanted
to interrogate ask him (nicely) about McQueen... how he
was, how he grinded on the dancefloor, ETC! But the stoopid ASH-cloud
decided to let my STALK VICTIM escape! I'm speechless.
But ah well! At least the fashion show continued as planned!
Oh wait...
I forgot to mention...
I WAS THERE!
OHMAHGOD right?! *Are you guys still with me? Great!* Daniel Boey invited me to
the show because he was the one in charge of it!!! AHH!! And NO! I still
haven't gotten over the insane awesomeness of getting invited to these
events!
I mean sure, there are some annoying people such as the usual high society BotoxBag poseurs who act
all chichi and think they're ALL THAT just because they sashay around
with a Hermes birkin or something. When they have money... but no style!
Not that I'm one to say though, especially since I was there in my Marc
by Marc Jacobs top and my McQueen scarf! HOWEVER! McQueen trumps all.
*Actually I saw this woman all decked out in McQueen Spring/Summer 2010
pieces! INSANE! I died.* Including the bitch-eh gay guys who gave me
that "you're so fat and so young... Go away F-BOMB!"-look. And I'm
like... EH EH EH EH EH EH! I'M BU-SEH! So you can EAT MAH MCQUEEN SCARF
BETCH-A-ZOID!
But I actually met some really REALLY cool people at the event... such as Chelsey of PurpleWhales.tumblr.com...
Really cool girl who looves vintage clothing! Which means I HAVE TO GO
SHOPPING WITH HER SOON! (I hope you're reading this Chelsey!) Along with
a few other fi-erce mommas!
Anyways!
ON WITH THE SHOW!
Well the set was pretty weird. It felt sort of tropicana gothica... which wasn't what I really felt from the clothes. But ah well, this isn't Paris and we aren't at a McQueen production! So...
Anyways, first up was Ashley Isham's diffusion line...
Sorry if my pictures are really shitty! There was this mist/fog/haze thing in the fashion show area... and it simply screwed up everything!
Well first I have to say, everything was VERY confuzzling. And I mean really really confusing. Firstly, just the
place itself. I mean it looked/felt and even smelt like a club actually
(sort of like Zouk I think! Not that I should know!) which was already
weird enough (thanks to the funky lights, the booming stereos, the
fog/haze/mist thingum permeating the stage), but then they were going to
stage a fashion showcase there... which felt really REALLY
weird! I mean you already have a whole bunch of people hanging out all
over the place, chatting and drinking like they're at a club, and it was
like just all of a sudden a fashion showcase happened at that club and
people just started watching the fashion show... Like it didn't feel
really official or I guess like how a fashion show would feel. This felt
like the fashion showcase just stumbled in and then people were like
"Oh look a fashion show thingum! Let's have a look at it rather than
getting wasted and grinding our asses on the floor and see whose botox
face giggles the most!" You know? It was more like a replacement act
rather than the main event!
I just felt that the place compromised the fashion showcase... and it
didn't let the clothes get the attention they deserved. Oh and not to
mention the funky rainbow disco lights which sort of didn't light up the
place but just a specific spot? Which was kinda annoying because you
couldn't exactly see or take in everything?
Next, the set itself was pretty weird... It felt sort of tropic neo-gothic or something... especially with the funky green lights
and the strange exotic amazonian plants which were more like from
Wonderland than from "Sound of Music" you know?
Which was really weird because it sort of hinted to the clothes having a sort of dark undercurrent, but I couldn't really pick up any.
RATHER what I saw was a lot of cocktail dresses... like DUH! That's what Ashley Isham is known for right? From
the sumptuous materials *I had the pleasure of feeling them in real
life. MMM MMM!* which reek of cocktail to the cut... this was Ashley in
home ground. But I was pretty bored by that. I mean cocktail after
cocktail after cocktail. When will the hangover ever END?! So rather, I
decided to focus on the prints and trying to figure out whether the
clothes really did relate to the set...
And interestingly enough, it felt more nostalgic with a tinge of tropical rather than having that DARK side... It was more oldern
Singapore like in the 40s or something... especially with these
prints...
Especially due to the hues, the sort of old-Singapore-shophouses nostalgia with just a tinge of the
quintessential Singapore tropics... (a.k.a the flowers) I don't know...
perhaps that nostalgia manifested itself into melancholy? Or perhaps the
set was just screwed and I'm reading too deep into things.
Anyways, back to the clothes rather than the concepts, the clothes were beautifully
crafted and so so luscious. Great, vivid prints and colours as always!
For that party-girl within you! But again, it was just so so boring, I
mean everyone else out there is doing glammed-up, pretty things for
glammed up, sexy, pretty party girls! Very
been-there-done-that-okay-STOP-DOING-THAT you know? But then again, this
is a diffusion line for very ready-to-wear stuff... which don't exactly
have to be groundbreakingly-McQueen-esque. Just gotta give the
customers what they want right?
SO MOVING ON!
To the main event!
ASHLEY ISHAM
The main line
Hey look a parrot! Hahaha okay things just got mega MEGA weird. And confusing.
You HAVE to see how this dress moves and drapes!
First off! WHAT ARE THOSE FUNKY THINGS ON THE MODELS' HEADS?! Can someone please enlighten me? I was
really really distracted by them because they looked like balls of
giga-ginormic ice cream which landed on their heads! Made me so so
hungry! Especially since dinner was liquid. Bleh!
Anyways, onto the clothes! Grace, poise, elegance, sophisticated, glamour, sexy perfectly channeled and balanced through
the amazing pieces which swirled and glided through the air! The draping
was impeccable and IMMACULATE! And the fabric... MMMM the fabric! I
die! Beautiful. Absolutely beautiful evening pieces which would make
mere mortals feel like Hollywood-queens! But back to the draping...
which I so so loved. It was amazing how he manipulated the fabrics and
let them flow so smoothly round the contours of the bodies! If only the
models were more voluptuous and curvy! Then the clothes would've really
SHONE! These clothes are for goddesses! Not anorexic robots off a
production line! TSK!
HOWEVER! There were pieces which I didn't love!
Tacky and fugly.
OhmyGAWD!!! *not the good OHMYGOD* How passe and tacky are these psychedelic-y
smudge prints! Hasn't this already filtered down to like the drains
already? Why is it making a resurgence?! It's garish, gaudy and ghastly!
They feel like the clothes came out through a 90s printer or something!
And it suddenly got water spilled all over it!
SPLISH SPLING SPLONG SPLAT!
The ultimate level of fashion Hades.
Overall, while I do love the amazing draping and gorgeous goddess-like silhouettes by Ashley, I don't
feel like he's brought anything new to the table. He's a great
designer... but yet to be a revolutionary artist like McQueen. Great,
glammed-up, sexed-up, beautifully made clothes. But that's just about it
for me. It feels like the clothes are just clothes. The end. Fullstop.
Amen. But with McQueen, clothes weren't just clothes... clothes went
beyond that... they were heirlooms, artefacts, artworks, masterpieces,
always delivering a message and bringing something new and fresh to the
table! He breathed life into his work... but these just feel sort of
cold. And far too cliched.
Note: Thanks again to Daniel for inviting me! And I love that you're constantly thinking about ways
to re-invent fashion shows! Kudos to you! But I think I would still
stick with fashion shows! For now.
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