Rock royalty was the inspiration for Topshop’s Christmas 2013 Collection premiering at the Digital Fashion Week. With a hearty dose of high-brow punk and blaring scores of humming guitar bass, the rock chick stomps down the aisle with a streak of rebelliousness this yuletide.
Topshop is not only driven to re-imagine an adolescent’s night of misdemeanor, but honours it by making one still look good whilst doing so. Topshop’s masterful clash of British guile through tartens and faux fur recasts street style in a high-fashion arena. The college girl transforms with iridescent taffeta tops, embroidered sequined chiffon skirts and retrolicious hot pants.
If Kate Moss didn’t exist in this universe, Topshop would have cooked her up to try this collection. With her vagabond mannerisms and relaxed unkempt do, the iconoclast embodied every last shred of British idiosyncrasies.
And for those who do not know Moss, this collection has opened yet more doors to the distant past when punk rock was livelier than Iggy Pop’s bladder at present. But I digress.
Which takes us back to the show: There is simply no underestimating the power of legs this Christmas. Topshop was responsible for trimming off the hemline for the girl with the shapely pins.
The compulsion to flaunt is all forgiven when we see the impeccably produced pieces with varied embellishments. And there is some kind of nostalgia in the way they unfold the offerings and let us relish the context in which our Christmas this year can be possibly riotous. God save the (rockin’) Queen.
Photography by Ee Shuen
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