R0DARTE: From the Plains to NYC
Time spent in the North Dakota landscape of endless light-dappled cornfields fueled Kate and Laura Mulleavy with a vision for their poetic collection.
“It was based on the Great American Plains, on Days of Heaven,” said Kate Mulleavy, referring to Terrence Malick’s haunting 1978 movie set in the Texas Panhandle at harvest time, for which Néstor Almendros’s cinematography won an Academy Award (“I loved the golden hour light,” said Sofia Coppola of the show). The collection —dreamy, ethereal, unexpected—might have been made for Coppola’s muse Kirsten Dunst, who sighed in the front row.
The Mulleavys wanted their collection to reflect “a study of natural light in that landscape—telling a story of the sun rising and setting, from dawn to dusk….”
“It was based on the Great American Plains, on Days of Heaven,” said Kate Mulleavy, referring to Terrence Malick’s haunting 1978 movie set in the Texas Panhandle at harvest time, for which Néstor Almendros’s cinematography won an Academy Award (“I loved the golden hour light,” said Sofia Coppola of the show). The collection —dreamy, ethereal, unexpected—might have been made for Coppola’s muse Kirsten Dunst, who sighed in the front row.
The Mulleavys wanted their collection to reflect “a study of natural light in that landscape—telling a story of the sun rising and setting, from dawn to dusk….”
Article by Hamish Bowles @ VOGUE
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