Sruli Recht

Jon Carroll wrote this bit about designer Sruli Recht, of whom I had previously not heard. Mr. Recht (Sruli?) is quite the artiste, apparently, when it comes to (in my opinion) pretentious clothing-as-art, art-as-life, life-as-metaphor type things. It's sort of like the J. Peterman catalog, but for high-fashion I guess (since there are no prices on his pieces, and he lists "exhibitions" and "awards received").

Take his website, for example, which states:

this site is not here. do not look at it.
it has been deconstructed
and all The Kings horses are putting it back together.
painfully.

then you will have more non-product,
charicouture and robo-coco accidents to look at

for
sewing is a contact sport

Yeah. That's what I thought. I never really understood the high-fashion thing, despite many hours of America's Next Top Model (which, regrettably, I will never get back), and frankly, I don't think I ever will. And that's ok with me.

Speaking of J.Peterman, I'd never actually looked through the catalog with any interest before...but I just went to the website to get the link for this post, and I must say, there are some lovely things in there! Erin, this hat is looking at you! Too bad it's all *just* out of my budget...