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Posted Oct. 1, 2007,
Mr. Mickey Takes on Paris Fashion Week
By Mickey Boardman
Bonjour pussycats! You all LOVED PAPERMAG.com's gorgeous coverage of New York Fashion Week soooo much that Mr. Mickey has hightailed it to Paris, France to report on all the excitement of Paris Fashion Week.
Today things got off to a colorful start with the show of Manish Arora, the London-based Indian designer who is a favorite of PAPER. Arora's show was at the Salle de l'Opera in the Grand Hotel, a lavishly Baroque little room that was a feast for the eyes. However, once Arora's eye-poppingly colorful creations started parading down the runway, the room suddenly didn't seem quite so visually rich. Is there any place with wilder colors than India? Neon pinks, saffron yellows, tangerines all mixed and matched (well sort-of matched) on classic Indian silhouettes, particularly full, floor-length peasant skirts that were primarily modern in shape.
Posted Aug. 2, 2007,
The Bunny Report: "Doc Martens Have Re-Emerged as the Essential Footwear of the Radical Fashion World"
By Jordan Kinney
Welcome to the second installment of The Bunny Report, wherein our floppy, fashion-forward intern Jordan walks us through his look of the day.
I saw this pretty interesting movie called This Is England the other day. It’s basically this heartwarming coming-of-age story about an eleven-year-old skinhead in the '80s as he embarks on a young life of, like, sex, thievery, killing people because of their race, and other happy stuff like that. And might I say, after watching his Fred Perry-clad cronies needlessly kick the shat out of basically everyone else in the movie, all that quasi-political hate-criming reminded me of how much I totally love Doc Martens!
I mean, let’s be real. I wasn’t really paying attention to the movie if that makes my slightly offensive mental fashion associations somewhat more acceptable, and everyone already knows that styles of skinhead subculture have been appropriated so many times that any extremist connotations are basically irrelevant. (I’m sure Dick Hebdige would love my oversights, but whatev!)
Controversial contexts aside, the Doc Martens have re-emerged as the essential footwear of the radical fashion world. This season, interpretations of the boot stomped down both the Gareth Pugh and Yohji Yamamoto runways and resonate in the designs of Chloe, Marc Jacobs and other kewl peeps like that.
Posted Mar. 8, 2007,
Mr. Mickey Loves Chloe!
By Mickey Boardman
Mr. Mickey is back from fashion week in Paris and despite some blog construction, MM is ready to tell you kids what he thinks. And what he thinks is this: Chloe is gorgeous!!! As all you style lovers already know, Paulo Melim Andersson has taken over the reigns at Chloe, a house whose past designers are a real who's who of fashion giants: Karl Lagerfeld, Stella McCartney and Phoebe Philo. Andersson comes from Marni, another of Mr. Mickey's favorite fashion lines. The new Chloe is still very ingenue, which Chloe girls love, but harder. MM can't say he lives for the Doc Martens-style shoes but I'm sure the kids will love it!