“FLAWLESS”
Spijkers en Spijkers Spring/Summer ’09 embodies inwardly focused beauty.
This collection is a considered study of post 1960’s housewife ideal and is subsequently a twist on the twins’ signature investigation into contemporary feminism.
The era of the Stepford wifes is viewed as women’s capitulation into ‘masculine desire’; therefore the contemporary view of a society of equality is overturned.
When the idea of equality is targeted so vehemently, the question is raised, how have we arrived in an airbrush-aware modern society? Cosmetic surgery is being sold as empowering, how does that reflect on what lies beneath?
In direct response to these questions, Spijkers en Spijkers have unveiled a plethora of contradictions.
The intellectual cut from the Dutch atelier is prevalent as classic flounces take new futuristic twists and manipulated thick organza layers somehow remain semi-transparent; shades of pastel become metallic and femininely soft fabrics and lines are simultaneously stiff and electrically charged.
The natural and the superficial are juxtaposed within each garment. A sense of inner beauty is found in the acknowledgement of contradictions and the futility of extremism.