The Look - pg.2

The Look pg.2

CROPPED-- In short, kids are going for the chop. It's that Huckleberry Finn moment. During a fitting for the youth cultist sportswear line Go Global, Sacha was throwing a pair of skintight silver parachute pants on us, which came up a little bit short, but there was something insouicantly charming, something fetish-cool about a bared torso, a low waistline with no underwear and a naked ankle served with bare feet or sandals. Flashback: Matthew Batanian did that feeling for Spring 96 didn't he and that thrift store pair of Levi's we worked all summer was extravagantly country bumpkin no? Now add to that the above mentioned bootcut jeans ... or those floppy hippie hats all the supermodels are working. There's something falling into focus here namely -- the three quarter drape is the sexy new length for super-chic young ladies and gents. Tres tres rude!

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NEON -- Who's been playing with the hue button then? Yeah, yeah it reeks of the extinct eighties but if Veronique Leroy, Commes Des Garcons, Lagerfeld for Chanel and Chloe, Spooky Inc., and Versace concur then you know fashion culture is going to shift spectrum accordingly. (Paging Mark Eisen, chartreuse courtesy telephone please) And thus the hot new color range is neon. But not screaming neon, for that would be simply too referential. The new neon in a muted neon, a computer neon, a neon filtered onto the new shiny fabrics to give that bonafide techno moment. Therefore think acid green against cobalt blue against against kool-aid orange. Makes you thirsty doesn't it. However don't go putting flecks of magenta anywhere near your lips, nails or eyes. NO STRONG BROWS OR OUTLINED LIPS EITHER. (shriek). You'd run the risk of looking like an outake from 1986 issue of The Face. But then again...that could be a ferocious reference. OK OK The neon make-up gets a comp. Mwah.