over the (rainbow/top)

anna sui is kinda like eating too much candy. hurts the brain. soo soo sweet and hippie-ish and WWEEEEEEE we are 13 years old wooooo! but every now and again there is an undercurrent of dark, and then i get happy. it is still incredibly young. but. you know. a little bit of where the wild things are in with all that spun sugar.

i don't much care, though, for those below the knee tights. feels done. that was a hip young styling thing we were doing 2 years ago. and now it just swings into avril lavigne-ey. which is basically like saying my-least-favourtie-thing-ey.

{anna sui spring 2013, photos by alessandro viero at gorunway.com by way of style.com}

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trying for open

a bit like with stella mccartney, i have always struggled with my perception of anna sui (vs my actual opinion if i actually look at the collections). i guess i shy away from what i tend to think of as sugar bubble gum hippie fashion. we all know i'm not much for hippies...

but the truth is there's a lot of substance in anna sui's work, if you look beyond the playfulness and show. and i'm trying not to be a curmudgeon who says 'but they're wearing owl hats, and that's silly and fashion shouldn't be silly!' because of course fashion should be silly. fashion is ridiculous! if fashion can't laugh and make fun of itself, then we are truly in trouble. and this season particularly, anna is quite in line with my own aesthetics; twisting around traditional work-wear, for example. so here's some really great stuff. including, even, a pretty amazing fancy-white owl hat...

{fall anna sui 2012, photos by marcus tondo at gorunway.com by way of style.com}

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