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Fashion Worn Out This Week: Malia Peoples, Doll Clothes, and BO
Posted by Jen Graves on Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 12:41 PM
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...draw upon the "nonsense and weird and funny" stylings of Asian street fashion—with everything singsongy and heavily bright, and many details pulled from doll clothes: pork-chop pockets, Peter Pan collars, bib tops, and large plastic buttons, like toy parts. There are also suggestions of obi belts and mandarin gowns, pulled smoothly from the past, and silhouettes mimicking the costumes in kung fu movies: high-waist slacks, trim-fit with wide splaying hems, and bloated sleeves floating up.
Peoples uses old sheet fabric, but not full old designs, which have embedded in them "the BO of strangers." (I love reading Marti Jonjak.)
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