Fuzzy Logic: Muppets as Muse for Fall 2013

Fashion

Fuzzy Logic: Muppets as Muse
for Fall 2013

by Sarah Mower

Photographed by Phil Oh

Urgent news fresh from the fashion front: Forget gray, blank out black—there’s a flare-up of fuzzy-fur logic taking shape before our very eyes! Look at the evidence gleaned over the last few days in London and Milan—both on the street and on the runway.

You can bet this is a trend that’ll be sticking around. Here are two cute and cuddly pastel-colored collections for fall from the relative newcomer Ryan Lo, who showed as part of Fashion East, and the latest starlet of the London runways, Simone Rocha.

From left: Two looks from Ryan Lo’s fall 2013 collection and one from Simone Rocha.
Photo: (from left to right) Courtesy of Ryan Lo; Yannis Vlamos/InDigitalteam/GoRunway.com

And now, lo and behold, here’s Karlie Kloss backstage in Milan, sporting a lovely little furry monster on her bag—just one example of an entire menagerie of petting-toy stars strung onto bags on the Fendi runway.



Photographed by Kevin Tachman




Photographed by Kevin Tachman


More indications of Fraggle Rock frenzy popped up at Tom Ford and Antonio Berardi too. Just because it’s high-end mink or fox doesn’t prevent it joining the fun-fur party.

Tom Ford (left) and Antonio Berardi fall 2013
Photo: (from left to right) Yannis Vlamos/InDigitalteam/GoRunway.com; Marcus Tondo/InDigitalteam/GoRunway.com

Wondering where this trend sprang from? We can’t go any further without tipping our hats to the originals. Cookie Monster, Elmo, and Grover—fashion idols of the season—you never looked so good!

Photo: John Lamparski/WireImage

Thinking back a bit, though, the furry fashion creatures were already mustering in the hills last winter. Meadham Kirchhoff’s multicolored glam-rock fake furs disco-danced along the runway in London this time last year.

 

Meadham Kirchhoff Fall 2012
Photo: Marcio Madeira/firstVIEW

And Karl Lagerfeld and Silvia Venturini Fendi finished off  last fall’s Fendi show with two more additions to the monster menagerie:

 

Fendi Fall 2012
Photo: Marcio Madeira/firstVIEW

To see where it really might have started, though, we need to go back still another step. All the girls who fell for Miuccia Prada’s mad, stripy fun-fur stoles in her spring 2012 collection are laughing loudest now. Isn’t it true? Sometimes the craziest investments turn out to be the longest lasting.

Prada Spring 2012
Photo: Marcio Madeira/firstVIEW

February 21, 2013 8:09p.m.


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