June 30th 2011
Florentine Dream
Rodarte does Couture has been ringing around the internet, with their very short lived installation of ten dresses, culminating the festivities of Pitti. Yet if truth be told, hasnt that always been the way ever since the self-taught Mulleavy sisters began by dragging a suitcase of hand-made dresses around New York and their couture leanings have always been evident in the pieces that I saw in person, with hand-this and hand-that seared into every stitch and seam.
In a disused shop front, together with Alexandre de Betak, Rodarte created a series of neon-lit cells that fluttered along with the soundtrack (best seen on Bureau Betaks blog) to provide a serene illuminated cocoon to these ten dresses created exclusively for Pitti W.
