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When Christian Lacroix said “Haute Couture should be fun, foolish and almost unwearable”, he was definitely not thinking of Antonio Riello and his retro couture collection of preversely blinged out personal weapons just for ladies.
Dubbed as fashion-fiction, Riello has taken real traditional male stuff and in an *artistic way* turned them into the *perfect female accessories*. So what do you get when you mix gold, rhinestones, velvet and faux fur with italian barettas, hand grenades and double headed battle axes?
Carmela
“Using leopard skins, brightly lacquered colors, inset jewels and fake furs, I create a range of specialized items for wives of mafia bosses, arms dealers, sophisticated ladies and exigent soldiers….hybrids born from Italian obsession for high fashion as well as for violence”.
Scary stuff, especially if you think about the fact that he named all these pieces after women he’s had passionate encounters with. Really does bring to mind something my mother kept on telling me while I was growing up – about *being careful of who you associate with*. You might just find out that a tacky piece of weaponry was named after you.
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a bejeweled hand grendade? I MUST GET ONE IMMEDIATELY!!!
lol, what where they thinking? fashion fiction is true
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Fashion can be fun but it can also become outrageous! Starting with basic classic pieces and then slowly adding the frou frou until you are dashing but not ridiculous is a good formula to follow.
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When Christian Lacroix said “Haute Couture should be fun, foolish and almost unwearable”, he was definitely not thinking of Antonio Riello and his retro couture collection of preversely blinged out personal weapons just for ladies….
Andy, LOL! I hope you are not planning on taking it with your assortment of gadgets whenever you fly on your business trips.
They can really stand out like a sore thumb.
he-he-he.
LOL! I love it. So much for “Be careful, or you’ll be in my novel”. I think having a nutty “weapon” bearing your name is worse. I also don’t want to think about the underlying pathology that inspired him to name these items after his EXs. Yikes!
Gilly, I guess it all just depends on how much *froufrou* it takes to be tacky.
Me, I’m the sequence queen and I just don’t know when to stop
Samantha, the total ex-revenge I just love it! I’m not sure if these are a shrine to them, or a blatant “you’ve done me wrong”.
I’m sure posh spice has got one hiding in her purse.
Some of this works for me, but other pieces of it aren’t really my style. What’s good about it, though, is that the world has so much variety in style. There’s something for everyone.
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