Mannequin on the runway at Viktor & Rolf Couture Spring 2024 as a part of Paris Couture Style Week held at Sorbonne Nouvelle on January 24, 2024, in Paris, France. (Photograph by Giovanni Giannoni/WWD by way of Getty Photographs)
Sparking many a viral meme, Viktor Horsting and Rolf Snoeren, the brains behind Viktor & Rolf, can at all times be trusted to deliver some humour to Haute Couture Week. With their newest assortment, the Dutch duo as soon as once more tapped into the absurd, delivering a set that was completely black however filled with lightness.
Taking part in off the friction of indecision, the place we’re typically pulled to extremes of selections, Viktor & Rolf’s Spring/Summer season 2024 couture show, entitled ‘Viktor & Rolf Scissorhands’, was comprised of seven “flawless couture outfits” that had been then used as blueprints for 3 consecutive iterations of the identical design. As if slowly disintegrating, seems escalated to finish dismemberment by the use of erratic reducing.
The idea “investigates the artistic (im)potentialities of a pair of tailor’s scissors, when used spontaneously to experiment with ornamental reducing,” learn a statement. “From minuscule holes in a Rorschach motif to a ballgown hacked in half: holes and slashes are managed and directed but additionally type cases of orchestrated chaos.”
The outcome was half-slashed bodices, tulle skirts carved up haphazardly, giant bits of material peeled away and uncovered layers. Whereas ‘ruining’ a garment might sound like simple work, the craftsmanship concerned within the unique items and their slashed-up counterparts was not misplaced on viewers.
It’s one thing that takes nice talent that Horsting and Snoeren appear to effortlessly obtain, thirty years on: Novelty and enjoyable with out falling into gimmick territory. Maybe it’s as a result of, past the conception, the ultimate product by no means ceases to encourage the best way solely nice couture can.
Mannequin on the runway at Viktor & Rolf Couture Spring 2024 as a part of Paris Couture Style Week held at Sorbonne Nouvelle on January 24, 2024, in Paris, France. (Photograph by Giovanni Giannoni/WWD by way of Getty Photographs)Mannequin on the runway at Viktor & Rolf Couture Spring 2024 as a part of Paris Couture Style Week held at Sorbonne Nouvelle on January 24, 2024, in Paris, France. (Photograph by Giovanni Giannoni/WWD by way of Getty Photographs)Mannequin on the runway at Viktor & Rolf Couture Spring 2024 as a part of Paris Couture Style Week held at Sorbonne Nouvelle on January 24, 2024, in Paris, France. (Photograph by Giovanni Giannoni/WWD by way of Getty Photographs)Mannequin on the runway at Viktor & Rolf Couture Spring 2024 as a part of Paris Couture Style Week held at Sorbonne Nouvelle on January 24, 2024, in Paris, France. (Photograph by Giovanni Giannoni/WWD by way of Getty Photographs)Mannequin on the runway at Viktor&Rolf Couture Spring 2024 as a part of Paris Couture Style Week held at Sorbonne Nouvelle on January 24, 2024 in Paris, France. (Photograph by Giovanni Giannoni/WWD by way of Getty Photographs)Mannequin on the runway at Viktor&Rolf Couture Spring 2024 as a part of Paris Couture Style Week held at Sorbonne Nouvelle on January 24, 2024 in Paris, France. (Photograph by Giovanni Giannoni/WWD by way of Getty Photographs)Mannequin on the runway at Viktor&Rolf Couture Spring 2024 as a part of Paris Couture Style Week held at Sorbonne Nouvelle on January 24, 2024 in Paris, France. (Photograph by Giovanni Giannoni/WWD by way of Getty Photographs)Mannequin on the runway at Viktor&Rolf Couture Spring 2024 as a part of Paris Couture Style Week held at Sorbonne Nouvelle on January 24, 2024 in Paris, France. (Photograph by Giovanni Giannoni/WWD by way of Getty Photographs)Mannequin on the runway at Viktor&Rolf Couture Spring 2024 as a part of Paris Couture Style Week held at Sorbonne Nouvelle on January 24, 2024 in Paris, France. (Photograph by Giovanni Giannoni/WWD by way of Getty Photographs)Mannequin on the runway at Viktor&Rolf Couture Spring 2024 as a part of Paris Couture Style Week held at Sorbonne Nouvelle on January 24, 2024 in Paris, France. (Photograph by Giovanni Giannoni/WWD by way of Getty Photographs)Mannequin on the runway at Viktor&Rolf Couture Spring 2024 as a part of Paris Couture Style Week held at Sorbonne Nouvelle on January 24, 2024 in Paris, France. (Photograph by Giovanni Giannoni/WWD by way of Getty Photographs)Mannequin on the runway at Viktor&Rolf Couture Spring 2024 as a part of Paris Couture Style Week held at Sorbonne Nouvelle on January 24, 2024 in Paris, France. (Photograph by Giovanni Giannoni/WWD by way of Getty Photographs)Mannequin on the runway at Viktor&Rolf Couture Spring 2024 as a part of Paris Couture Style Week held at Sorbonne Nouvelle on January 24, 2024 in Paris, France. (Photograph by Giovanni Giannoni/WWD by way of Getty Photographs)Mannequin on the runway at Viktor & Rolf Couture Spring 2024 as a part of Paris Couture Style Week held at Sorbonne Nouvelle on January 24, 2024, in Paris, France. (Photograph by Giovanni Giannoni/WWD by way of Getty Photographs)Mannequin on the runway at Viktor & Rolf Couture Spring 2024 as a part of Paris Couture Style Week held at Sorbonne Nouvelle on January 24, 2024, in Paris, France. (Photograph by Giovanni Giannoni/WWD by way of Getty Photographs)Mannequin on the runway at Viktor & Rolf Couture Spring 2024 as a part of Paris Couture Style Week held at Sorbonne Nouvelle on January 24, 2024, in Paris, France. (Photograph by Giovanni Giannoni/WWD by way of Getty Photographs)
