Puppets and Puppets Fall 2024
There’s been a lot of talk about Puppets and Puppets lately, especially with the advent of the New York Times publishing several stories on the brand and how the fall 2024 show would be its last ready-to-wear collection before the designer Carly Mark decamps to London to run the label firmly as an accessories brand.
And yet, the Puppets and Puppets fall 2024 collection was one of the best yet when it came to clothing. Decidedly a little bit weird (this is a good word for us) and very much representative of the quirky, downtown girl Mark has always stood for–we saw backless fur coats, funneled draped dresses, pantless look and slouchy quilted pants with furry tops.
Puppets and Puppets has always reminded me a little bit of Gray Gardens in the way the pieces are styled on the runway and that’s one of the many reasons the brand stands out. It’s Edie Sedgwick and Little Edie fueled. It’s representative of New York eccentrics. It always had an artist sensibility and maybe the clothes didn’t make perfect sense from a commercial standpoint, but I think that was the point. Especially in an overly and increasingly commercial New York fashion landscape. We need this kind of thing.
Many of the looks were twisted, draped and unravelling, a proverbial spiral away and out of New York. The bags didn’t have any of the signature fruits, cookies or objects attached to them, but we can only hope for more in the future.
During the show, a slow-mo version of Sinead O’Connor’s “Nothing Compares 2 U” played. Pretty iconic; the same song played at Tom Ford’s final Gucci show.
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