New York Fashion Week Spring 2009: Rodarte

I'm really fascinated with the Mulleavy sisters, the two designers behind the Rodarte line. Here are two woman who, when you look at them, appear to be the furthest things from fashionistas. They're artistic intellectuals who just happen to be the creative minds behind one of the most succesful high fashion lines out there these days. They showed their Spring 09 Collection here in New York on Tuesday, off-site, away from the mania of the Tents at Bryant Park, at the Gagosian Gallery in Chelsea. Of all the pieces in this collection, this stunning dress is my absolute favorite:



I read an article by Tierney Gearon in the New York Times Magazine about these ladies in which they described their thought process in creating this new collection:

"We'd been thinking about an idea of the future and what gets left behind," Laura says, citing a free-range list of inspirations: earth art of the 1960s and '70s and Robert Smithson's displaced mirrors reflecting and fracturing the natural world; Nancy Holt's "Sun Tunnels," four industrial concrete tubes punctured with holes in the patterns of constellations, in a remote Utah field; and the 2001 cult film "Donnie Darko."

Now, that's deep! Click here to see more of the collection.

Bee fashionable!