Gary Oldman, Prada and Steampunk Power Their Way To Haute Couture
"I still don't get it, Jennifer. What the heck is Steampunk?"
Voila, the de rigueur response from most when hit with a steampunk reference. Nebulous, querulous Steampunk. Briefly? 'Tis an anachronistically-based, alternate-existence, period-shod, fantasy world wherein steam power industry mixes bombastically with the funky, sharp vibes of modern technology. "Quod the quod?", you cry. No worries. It doesn't matter. It's just a bit of stylish fun. A weird and wild wedding of fashion, decor and technology flanked by the bridesmaids of science-fiction and fantasy. It's a mad, mad, mad, topsy-turvy twist of Victorian-era British Colonialism, the American West, 19thC. Industrial Revolution and NASA. If Charles Dickens, Gail Carriger, Jules Verne, Walt Disney and Tim Burton co-recreated a Gilbert & Sullivan musical, you'd have Steampunk, sort of.
Anyhoo, whilst Gwen Stefani's L.A.M.B., Vivienne Westwood, Betsey Johnson and Ralph Lauren have been giving us teases n' tastes of the Victorian-fantasy look for years, now Prada, with the help of Gary Oldman, Garrett Hedlund, Jamie Bell and Willem Dafoe, give us a four-course sartorial feast with the Fall/Winter 2012 line of menswear ... steampunk inspired, clearly.
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