Spring Break
Modern Mod fashions spectacular show
Erin Beauchemin
Issue date: 5/8/09 Section: Diversions
The Mom's Weekend fashion show, titled "Modern Mod," was of an impressive magnitude for one school-run event in a weekend of many. There were nearly as many models participating as people in the audience, though considering the fast pace of such a venue, people are time and time is essential. Their introduction, in which all wore the same shirt with the title of the show on it, was so lengthy that I wondered what it would be like to watch an entire show of varied, beautiful people modeling one outfit over and over again. I liked the idea, but this was not it.
"Modern Mod" suggests an intertwining of past and present on which the show followed through, at times leaning more one way than the other. At the recent end of the spectrum were the selections from Urban Laundry, which seemed as though they had received a botched invitation on which the printer ate the word "mod." Opposite them was the Nostalgic Pattern Company, which eschewed modernity altogether and became a highlight for it. One would ordinarily never see these dresses today (except at the Nostalgic Pattern Company), but that is a good enough reason to want to. I am tacking a veil to my own pillbox hat as soon as I see someone else do it first.
Among the outfits modeled, there was no one standard of formality. Styles shown ranged from formal dresses to everyday wear and even to a few pieces of lingerie and pajamas. Hopefully there were no mothers in the audience too conservative for that.
Linked to that gradient was a good range of prices; while there were no visible price tags, this was reasonable to assume from the varied materials. In my own experience, the makeup used with all pieces, from Sephora, is fairly affordable.
Along with the retailers, students showed their own creations. Unique among them were Jake Baez, whose graphic T-shirts betrayed an artist with potential in many mediums, and Sarah Moore's sister dresses.
The work of Ryan Schanno appropriately came near the finale; his work could have been slipped in among the retailers' best designs and would have been more expensive than any of them.
In summary, whatever one expected from the show, their version of "Modern Mod" could be found somewhere in it. Personally, the Nostalgic Pattern Company's bolt from the blue left the greatest impression on me - not for its practicality, but for prompting admirers to attach their own modern to the mod and translate it into today's visual language themselves.
Erin Beauchemin
diversions@dailybarometer.com
"Modern Mod" suggests an intertwining of past and present on which the show followed through, at times leaning more one way than the other. At the recent end of the spectrum were the selections from Urban Laundry, which seemed as though they had received a botched invitation on which the printer ate the word "mod." Opposite them was the Nostalgic Pattern Company, which eschewed modernity altogether and became a highlight for it. One would ordinarily never see these dresses today (except at the Nostalgic Pattern Company), but that is a good enough reason to want to. I am tacking a veil to my own pillbox hat as soon as I see someone else do it first.
Among the outfits modeled, there was no one standard of formality. Styles shown ranged from formal dresses to everyday wear and even to a few pieces of lingerie and pajamas. Hopefully there were no mothers in the audience too conservative for that.
Linked to that gradient was a good range of prices; while there were no visible price tags, this was reasonable to assume from the varied materials. In my own experience, the makeup used with all pieces, from Sephora, is fairly affordable.
Along with the retailers, students showed their own creations. Unique among them were Jake Baez, whose graphic T-shirts betrayed an artist with potential in many mediums, and Sarah Moore's sister dresses.
The work of Ryan Schanno appropriately came near the finale; his work could have been slipped in among the retailers' best designs and would have been more expensive than any of them.
In summary, whatever one expected from the show, their version of "Modern Mod" could be found somewhere in it. Personally, the Nostalgic Pattern Company's bolt from the blue left the greatest impression on me - not for its practicality, but for prompting admirers to attach their own modern to the mod and translate it into today's visual language themselves.
Erin Beauchemin
diversions@dailybarometer.com
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