Ann-Sofie Back

For Spring Summer 2009 Ann-Sofie Back continues her investigation of celebrity culture, this time using plastic surgery and liposuction as an unlikely point of reference. A series of disco dresses are cut and stretched with drawstrings resembling the processes involved in a face-lift, while clasps are based on the staples used to hold skin in place during recovery.

The dresses represent a striking advance for Ann-Sofie, although conceptual in origins the results in cream and mint chiffon are more conventionally beautiful than ever before. This area of the collection includes more commercial jersey dresses and also a bikini. Continuing in this new direction, frills are used throughout the collection. Frills are traditionally used as a device to create a sense of youthfulness. The frills however are broken signifying Ann-Sofie’s observation of failed glamour.

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