#amorestrashcouture

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De rojo y con un impresionante escote que finalizaba en moño, Paula Reca, lució un último modelo del otoño 2014 de Amores Trash Couture.

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bafw: amores trash couture

(images via dmodas)

one of the things i really enjoy about some of the smaller, lesser well-known fashion weeks is the requisite 'zany show' (or shows) that must be contained within the lineup: for example, los angeles has nuvula; são paulo has neon; zagreb has...well, okay, practically everyone showing; copenhagen, the tabernacle twins, oslo has fam irvoll, and i think from here on, you probably get the rest of my point.  but anyway, though i can't be sure (as we've only seen a glimpse of their s/s 2012 range), i'm suspecting the honour at buenos aires fashion week belongs to amores trash couture!

like, say, london's the rodnik band, it would appear that the argentine house is more about having a good time and presenting a cheerful, zippy collection than anything really weighty descending upon us, but their s/s 2013 range was a fun thing to behold, all the same.  according to the argentine site zirene, the collection was titled 'jungle robots', and as i suspect you're beginning to suspect, the backstory was basically as madcap as the chains adorning the models' faces. 

anyway, the brand's explanation of what it was all about on the bafw site was a little muddied, but we'll try to sort it out all the same (trans.): "it speaks of a robot entering into a jungle...[and] begins to want to be alike.  It is a fantasy with this character so different and particular, with a transformation happening where your lines become more rounded and square and angular and strong, saturate colours decrease in intensity until it becomes a jungle metal. Eventually symbiosis happens between all levels, a harmony [in which] lines and colours soften and fuse together. This process reads the throughout the collection."

got that?  i'm not sure i totally did, but i'm going to read it as something of a backwards story of the urban jungle, with something that was once hard and metal turning backwards into the organic (rather than the other way 'round the planet appears to be going at a rapid rate), which reminded me rather a bit of a video i happened to catch on an airplane of what would happen to nyc if people suddenly vanished from the scene (you can see it in two parts here & here--it's actually quite interesting if you've the time). 

but sorry, back to the collection at hand. and so, informing us that the stage was set rather like a summer's night, complete with carribean-influenced music, the blog (which incidentally has some great detail shots) me gusta o no me gusta reported that (trans.) "(t)he colour palette is true to the brand, or vice versa: blue, yellow, pink, black, silver and gold," while the bafw article went on to detail that the main materials for the range were silk, metallics, and jersey. 

finally, as for what was on the runway besides a lot of party-esque frocks (that really reminded me of what we regularly see in both the balkans and london), loqueva relayed that (trans.) "(t)he proposal for this collection was to expand the brand to include everyday items like patterned shirts, skirts, shorts, pants and even swimsuits."  and while the separates were charming, i'd certainly avow that it was the short, taffeta-esque (okay, it just felt like taffeta) numbers that speak to when the amores trash couture co and really in their groove. 

in the end, i'd call things basically pretty wearable, with a few exceptions (those high-waisted strapped power blue short shorts, above), but if anything looked intimidating, i'd say it was likely more of a styling issue than a design flaw--actually, when checking out an image of the overall scene, those draped and ruched frocks were pretty run-of-the-mill cute club-going pieces for a variety of bright youngy things, which sometimes actually led me to wish they'd taken a few more creative risks like those metallic layered numbers (at top and bottom), but whatever, not really a problem.  it was all good fun, in a bit of a high street-going sort of way, but sometimes a girl needs that too, non?  of course (see some additional show images at moda al dia).

(view the catwalk finale video here)