With New York Fashion Week entering its final home stretch, there’s one show that can be counted on today for a dose of the offbeat, ethereal and romantic. Each season—along with a trademark jumble of delicate, dreamlike ensembles—Rodarte offers up inspiring above-the-neck details, merging influences as diverse as gothic fairytales, cult fantasy video games, and the good-bad taste of California subculture into a uniquely realized vision of beauty.
Designers Kate and Laura Mulleavy tend to favor hair that’s loose and romantic, often augmented by gilded, foliage-inspired crowns and barrettes designed to add a dreamy—and at times, slightly sinister, as was the case with Fall 2013’s gold headbands that imitated barbed wire—edge to their aesthetic. Blurred orange cat-eyes graced the Rodarte runways long before Pop Art makeup reigned, and the oiled black body art that snaked up limbs during the Spring 2010 show read ever-so-slightly offbeat, predating a time when getting permanent ink was as common as piercing your ears.
Lips have regularly served as a palette for expression, with shimmering gold, mauve glitter, and matte bordeaux edged in black making for more memorable moments. And last year’s gaze-enhancing looks were nothing if not representative of the modern era in beauty: Brows bedecked in faux-silver rings seemed to launch a wave of street style imitators, and single rows of under-the-eye rhinestones offered a contemporary answer to the tiara, primed for the New Age It girl. Here, in anticipation of today’s runway show, a look at Rodarte’s most subversive beauty moments on the runway.
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