Viktor Horsting and Rolf Snoeren decided to go back in time and go back, albeit figuratively, 26 years ago, to the same moment their second haute couture collection was launched. So, the basis of each image was “a mushroom cloud formed as a result of the explosion of an atomic bomb.” The shapes were “very visual, exaggerated and absurd,” this is how the designers commented yesterday about their previous work. In reality, Snoren and Hosting also started from the absurd this time: “sewing as an exaggeration of abstractionism.” The Viktor&Rolf collection was made up of geometric shapes: rectangles, triangles, spherical and trapezoidal shapes.
The shoulders of the jacket rose so high that they formed a triangle and the minimalist fabric became a rectangle; a minidress with puffed sleeves, worn over a polka dot jacket, clearly looked like a circle that became a frame for harem pants, but in a different way; The cubes were wrapped like gift boxes and decorated with bows.
“Haute couture for us is a laboratory of experiments and inventions,” shared the designers, who never thought for a minute about who would wear their creations and how. — The viewer can allow his mind to guess, create free associations. We like. We offer something that is a starting point for someone’s own line of thinking. (…) Meaning? “We can build it ourselves.”
