Miguel Adrover: "The Rape of Society"
Photos by Visko Hatfield
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Emerging designer Miguel Adrover held his shown downtown, away from the maddening crowd at the
tents of Bryant Park.
Yet, editors from W Magazine, the New York Times and Women's Wear Daily took the traipse downtown
to see the show and they were not disappointed.
Our photographer Visko said it best, "Miguel's show is out of this world!"
Filled with a completely downtown
fashion crowd, dressed in fedoras and dresses made out of unusual things like place mats, the
clubby platform shoe-wearing crowd filled seats around an unconventional catwalk, decorated
with tall grass, sand and dirt.
A political statement kind-of-a-show, Adrover showed outfits on edgy no-pout models.
One look sported an anti-fashion deconstructed ‘raped’ Louis Vuitton bag skirt, ripped apart so
that the duffel handles rested on the hips.
A naked woman wearing what looked like a whole python as a shawl/toga with head of the snake
worn as a thong slinked down the runway trailing the tail was a powerful finale.
The theme of the show was the plight of global women needing to survive and the plight
of the New York City homeless was represented by a white long dress adorned with graffiti -
re-papered with newsprint to give a billboard effect.
Shiny gleaming body make up enhanced the fashion statements and wailing monk sound effects
took the place of a DJ and soundtrack.
Underneath the very powerful political statement is also a very talented designer.
Take away the shock value and you could see the detailing and the creative genius of the
outfits.
Miguel Adrover is definitely a name to watch in the New York fashion scene.
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