It's Fashion Week here in New York, a time of year when Project Runway also-rans, models, and yards and yards of fabric-covered attitude triangulate to offer a particularly sharp and stupid vision of what everyone will be wearing this fall. It's like looking into a Magic-8 ball filled with trends as shaken by Chloe Sevigny. In other words, most of these clothes have no basis whatsover in reality, unless, of course, your reality is Human Jiffy Pop Bag.
Still, many of the ideas that shuffle down the runways this week will eventually trickle down to the realest place in all of reality: the mall. So what looks can you expect to see at Forever 21 next year (or whenever they can get a good price on that fabric that practically disintegrates after one wash)? Here are a few:
Sad, Life-Size Victorian Doll Look
Did you cry when you read The Secret Garden? Do you want people to cry when they look at you? Well, nothing evokes more tears than seeing an adult with a giant bow on her head. Forever 21 would manufacture those bows in every color of the rainbow.
I'm A Soldier In The Army Of Style
It's Rhythm Nation for the aughts. Finally.