By Sofia Martinez
If you long for fashion that is wickedly fun, look no further than Jeremy Scott. As soon as his Spring 2014 show began, you knew you were in for instant gratification. “Teenagers from Mars” was Jeremy Scott’s prodigious theme, referencing the “Space Age” phenomenon from 1960‘s pop culture. Music tracks such as,’ “Lollipop, Lollipop, and “Mr. Sandman,” added a joyful feel to Jeremy Scott’s home on Mars.
Jeremy Scott opened his collection with a blast from the past transporting us back to the sixties with old school television color bars and an announcement interrupting our regular programming. Once he had our attention Scott put television color bars on evrything adding them onto dresses, bustiers, ties, swimsuits, and booties. The first model referenced the 60‘s cartoon “The Jetsons,” with her teased and flipped up hairdo. She was styled in a leather cardigan jacket and briefs finished with the color bar test pattern over a leather black bustier. The look wouldn’t have been finished perfectly if Jeremy Scott hadn’t finished the look with boots featuring the same tv pattern.
Models dressed as cartoons flanked the catwalk in flipped-up hairdo’s and mod silhouettes splashed with colorfully bright neon 60’s cartoon. “The Flintstones,” was a prominent theme throughout, with ensembles featuring jungle leaves and leopard patterns. A model wearing a green jungle leaf patterned bustier detailed with a zippers on each side paired with a leopard print pencil skirt was accessorized with shoes that matched the bustier exactly. If this is what a teenage Pebble Flintstone would wear, today’s teenagers might also go gaga for the rough hewn stone age look.
Jeremy Scott collaborated with Artist Kenny Scharf to add an artful interest to his retro collection. Scharf said, “ever since I first saw his collection of Jetsonesque designs, I immediately felt that we would be a great match.” Kenny Scharf is best known for his fantastical art of imagined creatures and brightly colored imagery. Scharf worked with Scott on prints, coming up with glaring tribal-mask heads, cartoon faces, and the artist’s signature squiggle graffitti.
One playful men’s look featured many tribal mask-heads in pink, yellow, and green on a shirt and pair of shorts. The look was styled with a pink pleather tie and white and pink oxford shoes. Scharf’s squiggly patterned graffiti was seen in red over bright multi-colored horizontal stripes on a sleeveless crop top worn over a red pleather pencil skirt embellished in polka dots.
A model meant to represent a “Teenager from Mars,” wearing an orange see through crop top with the words “Earth Sucks” on it and a neon green pencil skirt comically embellished with what looked like dinosaur spikes at each side was accessorized with neon green sunglasses and black pumps. Another model wearing a white t-shirt with the words “ Mars or Bust,” over multi – colored squiggles track pants resembled the graffitti work of artist Kenny Scharf’. We were tickled to see Jeremy Scott’s collection. It clearly was out of this world
