The Dutch got a preview of what Princess Mabel might wear at the next Queen's Day national holiday as Viktor & Rolf, the innovatitive Dutch designer duo, presented their new collection in Paris, Staurday. The princess and her husband Prince Friso, second, son of Queen Beatrix, had front row seats.
It was like a high school prom gone awry, The Associated Press writer Jenny Barchfield, reported, as the duo served up meringue-like concoctions of tulle that looked as if they'd been massacred by a Texas chain saw.
A full, Barbie princess skirt was riddled with Swiss cheese holes that cut clear through the bubble-gum pink tulle. Another, in mint green tulle, had a horizontal section at the hip sliced out with almost surgical precision. "There's a certain aggression to it, to the act of cutting, and we like that because that way it becomes contemporary", the lookalike pair said in a backstage interview.
"We didn't just want to create plain ball gowns", they said, finishing each other's sentences. They added that they'd taken the recession-era idea of "cutting back literally." And like the good Dutchmen they are, they didn't waste the leftovers, but instead recycled them.
The effect was dizzying, discombobulating _ and pure Viktor & Rolf. Asked how many miles (kilometers) of tulle had gone into their spring-summer 2010 ready-to-wear collection, the two replied, "many, many, many, many, many." The duo designed Princess Mabel's wedding dress in 2004 and she has remained loyal to them ever since. GPD © AP; Photo: © Royal Press Europe.
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