Couture Tag

We meet up with the designer on modernising the glamour of the Nineteen Fifties, One Direction fan fiction, and her corrosive Scorpio tendencies Fashion is sometimes called a vessel for private reinvention, harbouring the facility to shed, inhabit, and experiment with different identities. But Paula Mihovilovic’s graduate collection at Central Saint Martins offered up another idea: that individuals are ceaselessly haunted by the spectres of their past regardless of the efforts they could make to embellish and disguise themselves. On the runway, ghoulish body doubles loomed over models, free-floating from bustiers, bustle skirts, and disco leggings. The entire thing was a seance of mish-mashed historical references, with Mihovilovic whipping layers of transparent fabric...