Wednesday, May 28, 2008

House of Holland by L

The strange thing about the House of Holland is its bombastic, yet pleasant merge of seemingly nonsense printed phrases on shirts that vaguely remind you of the early/mid 90’s, with vivid subject matter that made statement that you were simply indifferent to. Hell, you bought it because you thought it was cool. By utilizing vivid prints with statements like “ Flick Yer bean For Agyness Deyn” or “ Give Us A Blow Dais Lowe” you will inevertantly receive numerous inquires regarding the tee.
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This may elicit as response from you (while embodying a pure sense of cleverly masked announce) “I simple love the shirt.” However, from time to time you will encounter a few well chosen enlighten individuals that will recognize that you are giving a nod to paramount, revolutionary and fresh creative individuals within the ever so capricious realm of fashion. Of course this is simultaneously done in a sharp tongue in cheek manner. You may not be wearing a tacky mundane logo, whose party of “high fashion” publicists has successful convinced you to be their unpaid product campaign.
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The collection is divided into 3 subgroup (i.e. Fashion Groupies, One Trick Pony, and Stephanie & Axl) are playful, candy coated displays of brilliant simplicity that convey a sense of childish vitality and seemingly adult content. Henry Holland, the brain child of the mischievous apparel, set out to make uber hyper-hip tees that are utterly delightful and, again, simply brilliant. Who cares if it is super cool. In fact, it’s the point. Besides, 15 years from now when some disillusioned kid stumble on a few of these tees either in our closet or the thrift store rack, they will encounter an opportunity to venture into the the world in which we are so disparately attempting to define ourselves.

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