Contents NO 06 SEPTEMBER 2007     DREAM DRESS     I didn't  believe in magic before i saw you disappear Drawings: Ika Künzel    The Historical Dream Dress  – Much More than Prohibitively Priced The ideal dream dress is romantic; ever a frock for Cinderella, to transform her into what she really is. Everything else is just dressing up and thus the mere coquettish mimicry of a dream dress, or even the ironic rebuff of its promise - in both cases, belief in the dream is missing. Text: Oliver Tepel   Gunhyo Kim Dresses Make Dreams Come True “It can be the dress of a prince who wants to be king, the dress of a princess who would like to be a man or the dress of a little girl who dreams of being a princess.” Text: Christina Tschech Photography: Frederik Heyman   The “Dream Dress” Industry Hired by legendary director Cecil B. DeMille as house costume designer for MGM, Adrian designed gowns for stars such as Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford and Katharine Hepburn. It is notable that A-list costume designers like Adrian actually created the characteristic look of “their” stars over the course of many years. Text: Claus Richter   Mr Pearl C: Why do you think the male corset is such a rarity these days? P: Oh, I think people have just become very lazy, that’s all. They’ve become very involved with T-shirt culture. Interview: Claus Richter  Photography: Ronald Stoops (full text)   Bruno Pieters Photography: Markus Jans   Tears for Romeo As if summoned by magical tones, one enchanting Eurydice after another rose up from the underworld spiraled her way once around the catwalk and disappeared again below. Impossible that these creatures presenting themselves in shimmering velvet, glimmering synthetics and glittering wire mesh were flesh and blood models. More likely they were Boticelli angels and delicate, storybook faeries. Dream garments for fantastically beautiful dream girls. Text: Brigitte R. Winkler   (full text)     SOS - Saillard, Olivier Saillard For me, the dream dress is invariably roughed-up and tattered. I don’t like little-girl dreams! Text: Christina Tschech     Veronique Branquinho Ready-to-Wear Review The sparing use of feminine details, such as ties and trimming, on collars, cuffs and bib fronts hearken back to 1980’s reactionary chic – when Victorian and Edwardian style elements re-emerged in line with retrogressive politics, and women looked positively bridal. Text: Lucy McKenzie Photography: Etienne Tordoir     Ewelina Lorenz In Praise of a Timeless Maria  The designer’s creations offer an image of the Madonna in tune with today’s zeitgeist. Ponderous, mysterious and restrained: this is the aura her collection aims to impart. Text: Gorana Blagojevic Photography: Gregor Kaluza   Upcoming Autumn/Winter 2007/2008   Impressum