>> After teaming up with Opening Ceremony last season for the lower-priced and more everyday wearable Rodarte for Opening Ceremony collection, Kate and Laura Mulleavy are back for another round for Fall 2011. Full of silk prints, cable-knit sweaters, and pinafore-inspired dresses, a preview of the Scandinavia-inspired collection — modeled by twins Gwen and Donna Loos, and hitting stores and online in early October — in the slideshow.
Photos by Autumn de Wilde
>> Tom Ford guest edited the most recent Vogue Paris, but he's not the only designer with an issue on newsstands. Rodarte's Laura and Kate Mulleavy guest edited the Fall/Winter 2010 issue of Lula, in which they styled Kirsten Dunst in an editorial photographed by their friend and backstage photographer Autumn de Wllde, dressed Charlotte Gainsbourg for the Nan Goldin-shot cover, and asked Tavi Gevinson and Sofia Coppola to contribute. Some highlights from the issue in the gallery, plus more here.
>> Just weeks after rumors of a possible acquisition by LVMH came up, Rodarte shows their most wearable, commercial collection ever. As WWD notes: "One can’t help wonder if [in light of those rumors], this was their merch-meets-Mulleavy audition."
Inspired by Northern California, its redwood forests, and its cultural links to Japan and China, Laura and Kate Mulleavy sent out parquet-printed dresses — “We’ve been sending wood panels to Italy for the prints," Kate explained — and blue and white floral china-patterned gowns that had a Eastern quality to them. “We wanted the dresses,” Laura said, “to look like vases.” Kate added: “There are a lot of different elements [and] this is our amalgamation." They created all the fabrics themselves.
Kim Gordon, Spike Jonze, Kanye West, and Elijah Wood were all present for the spectacle, and friend of Rodarte Autumn de Wilde was busy filming for the brand, as guests were warned. Afterward, Eric Wilson writes, the designers "could not even take their bow before they were overwhelmed by a rush of editors and retailers praising them to the heavens."
>> Hanne-Gaby Odiele, Ohne Titel, and Casting Director Natalie Joos Among Paper's 2010 Beautiful People —Paper has released its annual Beautiful People issue; among the fashion contigent are photographer and Rodarte collaborator Autumn de Wilde, casting director Natalie Joos, Hanne-Gaby Odiele, Calvin Klein model David Agobodji, Prabal Gurung, Ohne Titel, Milk Studios' Mazdack Rassi and wife, Marie Claire fashion editor Zanna Rassi. Among the tidbits gleaned: Alexa Adams of Ohne Titel's great-grandfather was Al Capone's tailor. [Paper]
Whether you love Rodarte, hate Rodarte or sometimes both—there is a gently worn sweatshirt made especially for you.
The sisters Rodarte have a new collection off tees and sweats created in collaboration with artists David Benjamin Sherry and Autumn de Wilde, who has been documenting Rodarte collections since Kate and Laura Mulleavy's first in 2006.
So, it might be time to reinvent your everyday basics with a "Radarte" white tee shirt or the aforementioned "J'amie Rodarte" sweatshirt, which hedgeds a little with "Je déteste Rodarte" on the back. You know, just in case. . .
Click here to see the entire collection.
