Generally when fashion gender-bends it leans toward androgyny. Not Patrick Mohr’s collection for Spring/Summer 2011 at Mercedes Benz Fashion Week in Berlin. Mohr’s esthetic went well past the point of blurring the gender line into blatantly recreating it, eschewing the typical made-up and coiffed look for pale skull caps and sparse fine-haired beards for both male and female models - a look that was simultaneously haunting and jarring.
Mohr is known for his pushing the envelope in his styling. His 2010 Autumn/Winter collection shown in January had a Lady Gaga, meets pro-wrestling, plus rabbit-teeth esthetic. (No, I’m not joking, take a look at the three pictures below.)
Mohr’s Spring/Summer collection is sophisticated and subdued in comparison. Now for as for the clothes themselves, they don’t read summer to me. But, I live in the humid US southeast, where layers, no matter how light, can feel utterly oppressive. Still, a number of Mohr’s pieces had a certain flow and ease that was pleasing to the eye, and surprisingly wearable.
Others, well... I’m not sure where you’d wear this.
But, just as fashion is art, and you don’t buy a fine art because it goes with your bedroom set, Mohr’s collection is Picasso rather than “coordinating wall art†from your local furniture showroom.
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