Karl Lagerfeld cowers in his black and white corner. Eyes spring from the shrieking heads of beige and black wearing
BCBGs. French designer
Andrea Crews is on the street, beating your classic notions of Parisian chic to a pulp with her outrageous brand of performance-art fashion.
Crews is more outrageous than
Cassette Playa and more widely embraced in her home town than
Romance Was Born. She promises to un-stitch the way we consume, consume, consume and to deliver fashion that recycles, delves into fashion production systems, and turns them inside out. The results are accessories bigger than your head, recycled swap-meet forays to Spain and a crew of fans in hand-painted shoes, tie-dyed T-shirts and jumpers as pants.
The ethical, adventurous results of Crews' forays into the meaning and techniques of fashion production yield some hot results, that you can pick up
online. Or take a leaf out of Crews' book and take a look at how you consume clothes and just take some paint to your favourite pumps instead.