everybody's contemporary, Valisia

Valisia Odell, from The Callas feat.The Callasettes encountering the Comme Des Garçons, Leather Top, Spring/Summer 2009.

Video by Tassos Vrettos
Editing by Lexie Vryoni
Listening to The Callas, "East Beat", produced by Jim Sclavunos, Inner Ear, 2013

Leather Top as in the destefashioncollection capsule of 2009 which is curated by Helmut Lang

selection five - Comme des Garçon
Object: Leather Top

What is the future of black? This was the philosophical question that Rei Kawakubo might have pursued in her S/S 2009 collection, which was conceived and presented before the economic downfall. As one of the last independent Créateurs, she is intuitive as always, fearlessly experimental and of such an original mind. She has had widespread influence over generations of designers. As exclusive and particular as the Comme des Garçons client is, her ideas reach far down the fashion pyramid in endless watered down versions. As a symbol for this year, Helmut Lang chose this geodesic top, as it seems to predict that the world is losing its bot- tom and its top. This was probably not her intention, but looking back the curator found it quite visionary. In a sense, this choice is also made to highlight Helmut Lang's respect for her entire body of work, but in particular for her undisturbed creative genius, which is perhaps once again unwillingly helping out an industry that has to reinvent itself.

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