{"id":57012,"date":"2015-09-22T15:17:38","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T15:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wonderlandmagazine.com\/?p=57012"},"modified":"2015-09-22T15:17:38","modified_gmt":"2015-09-22T15:17:38","slug":"lfw-simone-rocha-ss16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wonderlandmagazine.com\/2015\/09\/22\/lfw-simone-rocha-ss16\/","title":{"rendered":"LFW: Simone Rocha SS16"},"content":{"rendered":"
Simone Rocha was just weird enough for SS16.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cI Saw A Bride In the Bamboo Forest\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n A series of haiku-like phrases constituted the Simone Rocha show notes this season. Lines like \u201ccrystal ears, jelly feet\u201d and \u201cman made and natural, flowers and cars\u201d set the tone perfectly for what was to come: thoughtfully composed, vaguely poetic, but also wryly off-kilter and a little self-consciously strange. This celebration of the odd was most evident in Rocha\u2019s conversion of the humble (and infamously ugly) jelly shoe to a bejewled and not entirely loathsome piece of footwear.<\/p>\n Big In Japan<\/b><\/p>\n If this sounds gimmicky, it wasn\u2019t really. And neither were the clothes. The designer\u2019s trip to Tokyo didn\u2019t result in cringingly re-appropriated pieces that screamed geisha in a tea ceremony, but rather they whispered their gently and evocatively felt influences; a \u201cmoss forest\u201d softness could be observed in delicately fabricated dresses presented in diaphanous chiffon with lightly puffed sleeves. And if a Japanese-inflected floral type motif found itself in a print or two, it didn\u2019t seem overstated.<\/p>\n All Tied Up<\/b><\/p>\n There was another side to this collection though: beyond, and sometimes on top of graceful dresses, there was present the idea of binding. It wasn\u2019t necessarily an erotic bondage, but there was certainly an abundance of fabrics that criss-crossed over themselves like links in a fence as well as a recurring motif that consisted of ropes or fabric-straps that softly, and not so softly, harnessed the models into their outfits. It was a delicately subversive touch in a collection that specialised in staying just the right side of strange.<\/p>\n