Viktor & Rolf Couture Fall 2018, futurism with a hint of nostalgia

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The brilliant dutch duo Viktor & Rolf celebrated their quarter of a century with an all-white collection showing their dizzying creativity ready to challenge any convention.

“We wanted a clean blackboard,” said Rolf Snoeren, the most talkative half of the avant-garde pair.

And in fact, they let their imagination run wild with a caramel-like tulle dress that almost seems to be bitten by a giant monster, a heart-shaped harlequin suit, and a diamond-studded style quilted dress with a formed collar from satin cushions.

The vaulted sleeves and accordion-style pleats in Elizabethan style, worn by some models, seem to bring us back in time, while the huge thick sleeves exaggerated on a last silver-white coat make the wearer look like an archangel of the future.

In this mix of Viktor & Rolf between past and future there is also a look and a review of archives that have triggered in their memories both beautiful and ugly, of their personal lives.
In this wake, a voluminous ball gown sheathed in a layer of decadent wool, based on their first dress, stood out on everyone. (The original was instead presented at the Hyères festival in 1993, won by the designer and was in silver and gray.)

An accordion jacket with a fan of white-collar shirts comes from the Viktor & Rolf collection, “One Woman Show” in autumn 2003 starring Tilda Swinton. Other brilliant moments included a remake of a tulle dress with clean holes sculpted in the skirt (from the rtw spring 2010 collection and originally in pink) made using one of their secret formulas.

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Francesca Montuschi

Trendsetter sin dai tempi dell'asilo (già allora decidevo i miei outfit). Giornalista di moda, sempre alla ricerca di nuove tendenze, ma nostalgica dell'eleganza del passato.