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Viktor & Rolf mixes Picasso and polo shirts for Spring Summer 2016 haute couture



Dutch fashion house Viktor & Rolf has continued its "wearable art" theme with an haute-couture collection of sculptural white garments made from Cubist facial features.

Viktor & Rolf's The Performance of Sculptures was shown yesterday at Paris' Palais de Tokyo, during the city's haute-couture fashion week.

The Spring Summer 2016 range builds on previous art-influenced collections, including last season's wearable paintings and an earlier range of garments based on Van Gogh artworks.

The starting point for the most-recent collection was the simple white polo shirt, which the designers fused with the work of another famous artist: the Spanish Cubist, Pablo Picasso.

"This season, the collection explores the idea of the archetypical white polo shirt meeting Cubism," said a statement from Viktor & Rolf, which decided to drop its ready-to-wear lines to focus on couture and perfume last year.
Related story: Viktor & Rolf dresses models in wearable paintings during Paris couture show

Parading to a choral rendition of Radiohead's 1993 track Creep, the first models appeared in polo-collared dresses with short sleeves and oversized buttons.

Mismatched facial features and body parts stuck onto, or cut out from, the fabric created abstract portraits.

Each of the garments was made entirely from a white technical piqué ? a cotton material woven with fine ribbing, creating a magnified eyelet structure.

As the performance prog...
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