If 2007's shapeless, airy frocks were about looking like a doll, then 2008 is about being a girl again. Ballerinas and school girls have been crowding the fall/winter 2008 runways. Gwen Stefani announced the release her Harajuku Lovers fragrances in doll-shaped bottles (due out later this year). Michael William's Haute Dollhouse has adult women drooling. And a slew of "innocent" scents from names like Yves Saint Laurent, Vera Wang, Thierry Mugler, and Demeter are hitting the shelves.
While following the fall/winter 2008 runways, Isabelle O'Carroll at Catwalk Queen wrote that Ashish's collection was "designed to bring out the girly Lolita inside the powerful street-savvy woman," and Hannah Kane made note of Eley Kishimoto's "puff shoulders, bows and Gothic Lolita headdress-style ruffled pieces." Danica Lo at The New York post was also impressed by Betsey Johnson's "ability to translate a very over-the-top East Coast trashy Lolita teenage aesthetic into something a little more, um, Pan-American." Sounds like a trend to me.Does all of this mean we on the verge of a new wave of Kawaii style, where women have permission to aesthetically revert to childhood? (I'll leave the answer up to the girls at fashionablycute.net.) Or does this just mean it's okay for us to play with dolls again? (In which case, I'm totally there! In a fashionable way, of course.)
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