Viktor & Rolf Fall Winter 2008 Preview

Viktor & Rolf expressed their frustration with the fashion system on their last runway effort shown in Paris this week.

"We love fashion, but it's going so fast. We wanted to say 'No' this season."

They started their show with a sharp gray trench coat adorned with a 3-D "No" popping out on the model's chest. The word was recurrent also on the models' faces with bold No's used as eye make-up. With their characteristic irony they used metal staples to finish off hems, cuffs and seams. I love their conceptual fashions and once stripped of most gimmicks are beautifully tailored and dramatically original.

Via Style.com

Viktor & Rolf Join The It-Bag Circus

The women who inhabit the collections of Dutch design team of Viktor & Rolf have had a lot of fantastical getups to choose from over the past decade, but until Spring/Summer 2008 they haven't had a single handbag to call their own. In stores early next year is a capsule collection of purses in the understated couture style that has become the duo's signature. Designs are kept spare and neat, with details that incorporate V&R emblems like the logo seal, the bow, and the Flowerbomb diamond shape. And each style has a name derived from the idea that they might all have a conversation together (the black patent "How are you" bag and the pink satin "Good evening" clutch, for example)—when they're not serving as conversation pieces on their own.

For info go to Viktor & Rolf's website.

Via V Magazine