Wednesday 13 April 2011

Vivre sa vie

Why Anna Karina?

She's beautiful. Obviously. Even a blind man in a coma could affirm this fact with a lusty wolf-whistle. She's an icon. That's obvious too. As Godard's prodigy, her influence upon French New Wave reaches further beyond bewitching visual apects and, as the raven haired antithesis to the Bardot charm, her coy dressing, cat eyes and piercing angles froze a part of the 60s, which is yet to be thawed out.



With this insight in mind, Peter Jensen's fw 2011 "Anna Karina" collection fiercely apprehends her musings with isolated complexity yet, still translates rather simply through school-girl lengths under swallowing knits, fabricated with lucid colour blocking of cloudy sky blues, pillar box reds and milk bottle whites.

Nevertheless Jensen's new lookbook, featuring Tennesse Thomas, Diva Dompe and shot by Autumn de Wilde, intensifies the designer's twee, "nouvelle vague" vision by parodying a european dysfunction and awkwardly toying with clumsy innocence. Charmingly, the retro set design and quaint styling artfully complements loose, vintage shapes, turning seductive sirens into cute, gamine goddesses.

All corners covered, i'd say that's probably why Peter Jensen chose Anna Karina.






1 comment:

  1. Such a great post! Love all the pictures...

    All the best, Angel

    http://www.fashionablynumb.com

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