I've been listening to this song all day long which has pretty much dictated my posting mood today (yes, I'm a tragic blogger who has POSTING moods...). Similarly, when I saw Anna Aichinger's new S/S 09 collection "Sonic Summer of Youth" and was bopping along to The D!rt Lab, I was thinking "Yeah.... bandeau, graphic cut-outs, tight satin and sheer panels all the way!" If I look back on this in hindsight, I am thinking that the bandeau, the check, the tightness of it all is a little cliched.... these three things tick the prerequisites of coolness that will guarantee to make any reasonably slim person look like they have fallen out of Jalouse magazine.
Still, on the Austrian designer's statement before the S/S 09 lookbook, it's pretty obvious that perhaps she's aware of those cool cliches too and that she is using that language to play around with in her collection. It's interesting how tied up plaid up shirts around the waist, Leger-esque elastic and that youthful desire to be the coolest of the bunch is being commented on here in her Anna's clothes. Take it to the next level and she could be doing a Viktor & Rolf-esque piss take of the whole "cool hipster" (I HATE that h word and promise never to use it again because it is ever so odious...) look. As it stands, she has still ended up with a collection full of interesting pieces that yes, would appeal to the Jalouse girls but also to the half way houses such as myself.
