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A striking new proposition for the cat’s pyjamas from the designers behind Bec + Bridge, who took their cues from the work of Henri Matisse and the 90s alike
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‘Henri Matisse goes to Metallica’ is one way of many ways you could perhaps interpret Becky Cooper and Bridget Yorston’s proposition with Meow Meow, the Resort 2018 collection the designers presented earlier this evening on the stately seventh floor of David Jones’s Elizabeth Street store.

It requires no great stretch of the imagination to see why their clothes have proved extremely popular with young Australian women and A-list celebrities alike for going on a decade now – they’re bold, cut a fine figure and aren’t afraid of a little extra sex appeal – and if tonight’s offering was any indication, you’ll likely be seeing many an iteration of their nostalgic-for-the-90s ruffled leather cigarettes pants everywhere from the MCA to the Metro over the coming monthx.

Other strong inflections from that hallowed decade came through most discernibly in a great deal many more asymmetrical dresses cut from black leather and stark white cotton (à la Anthony Vaccarello for Saint Laurent Paris); slips in heavy bias cut silk; ruffled pelmet skirts in leather, denim and suede, with some fringed with tulle; as well as sections devoted to variations on one-sleeved dresses and deconstructed shirting that played with the exaggerated sleeve length of the moment. Again, the double breasted blazer as standalone dress appeared in the show, this time in (what appeared to be) polka dot linen.

With the volume turned up to a level that matched the magnitude of the venue and the unabashed confidence of the offering – the brand, after all, is celebrating its 15th year – Bec + Bridge made a strong case for staying in one’s lane, but doubling down on the accelerator. Faster pussycat, kill, kill.

View the Bec + Bridge Resort 2018 collection in full here

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