Evidently high fashion looked to leisure activities such as skiing and tennis for inspiration, with utterly disturbing results. Pucci, who I have always admired for their tessellation design and criticized for their poor implementation of said repeats, was a major culprit in this odd abstraction of rich people fun.
150$ in 1979 was a lot for a ski suit. About 875$ in 2009 using the Relative GDP Calculator. Let’s be realistic though, I’d pay any amount to ski near that fella, yowza!
Laura
12:07 pm on
April 2, 2009
I forgot how to login. doh!
the first image looks a little like a burn patient.
I don’t like it.
Jim
5:09 pm on
April 3, 2009
It actually remind me of the bondage mask Big Ed from Twin Peaks wears around the house in Wes Craven’s ‘The People Under the Stairs’; has anyone seen that recently? Don’t do it!
Meghan
5:25 pm on
April 10, 2009
I love this. I really love it. I would love to wear it. I am not sure what this says of my taste, particularly under these comments. Nevertheless…..