High fashion can be difficult to digest. The expectation of functional vestments—you know, clothes a person might actually wear—has been all-but-supplanted by what appears to be a bunch of Long Island City warehouse assemblage artists just using human bodies as a sort of coincidental medium. It’s like they started out as abstract sculptors, but then they realized they could make a million bucks selling ready-to-wear to four or five Central Park West socialites and said, “fuck it, we’ll just slap a bunch of weird shit on my skinny friend Danielle and send her down the runway.”
These LEGO masks from “makeup/interdisciplinary artist” Isamaya Ffrench (also known for putting plastic grocery bags on models’ faces) come from the not-really-intended-to-be-worn-by-mere-mortals school of fashion, and while appreciate the playful creativity of it all, I can’t help but think they’re a heavy-handed attempt to electrify an otherwise rather sedate collection from designers Agi and Sam.
Or maybe LEGO-face is a much more subtle look than I’m giving it credit for?
Via Design Boom