An ode to Einstein at the Dior Paris show
By know I’m sure you’re all familiar with Anna Dello Russo, fashion editor DU JOUR of Japan Vogue. It’s hard not to miss her really. Over the past few months her Gigantic, Soaring, Leaning, Protruding, Fluorescent clothing Contraptions have been snapped and papped by the fashion elite everywhere from here to Timbuktu. She has been described as the pre-crowned style icon of 2011, the Carrie Bradshaw of the real world, the fashion crowds’ answer to the Messiah…okay, that might have been a slight exaggeration (read completely false), but you get my drift, all over the biggest blogs and magazines, Anna Dello Russo has been undeniably salivated upon.
I definitely mistook this one for a Carrie moment on first glance
But can I just ask, WHERE did this woman come from?? And I don’t mean where she grew up or what she did to become such a fashionomenon* (but for those of you who are interested she comes from a tiny little village in Italy where she grew up with no water in a one-roomed house and where they learned English by scribbling the alphabet on poisonous dock leaves using only their bare hands and the juice of a wombat as protection)**, but from exactly WHAT photoshoot did she storm out of mid-shoot? Or from the pages of which magazine did she miraculously spring from. Dello Russo is so over-the-top in everything she wears and how she wears it, that I find it difficult to comprehend this woman even existing in a world where horrible things happen such as spilling tea all over your project the night before its due in or getting your shiny new shoes splashed on their first outing by THAT idiot driver. Dello Russo seems to be prancing and posing around life carefree with her long tanned, like a Bambi who’s just discovered Louboutins, just shortly before his mother dies. Bless, I’m not sure if i’m loving or loathing this woman for her effortlessness in claiming fashion world domination, but just looking at her, and her exploded rainbow of fashion choices, make for an interesting coffee break***.
Fully inflated these shoulderpad allow you to reach optimal heights for all fashion shows
Who's afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?
Not Goldilocks anyway
...and this is the living room
I think she looks like Elle McPherson here no?
Peekaboo
Who's your Daddy?
'This is me crossing the road'
'This is me sitting on a roadside thing'
'This is me walking on a different road. These are my fans'
'And this is me standing'
'This dress accentuates both my back and my bum'
La la la la la...fashion domination
J'ADR WORLD PEACE
*fashionomenon: I fully believe that this is a new word that could work in the fashion world. Derived from a combination of ‘fashion’ and ‘phenomen’, the world literally means to be phenomenally fashionable
** Anna Della Russo was born in Bari, Italy. She studied Italian Literature and Art History at the Domus Academy, Milan, where she currently resides. Previous to Vogue Japan, Della Russo spent 18 years as fashion editor at Italian Vogue and for six year as Editor of L’Uomo of Vogue. She describes herself as a ‘passionate fashionista’
***For lunchtime I would fully recommend checking out her blog, full of frivolous quotes and images of herself, my favourite are the photoshops of her own head on the recent Paris catwalk shows, www.annadellorusso.com
