Melbourne
Beautiful skirt by comme des garçons $249, from Bruce’s new store, 150 Gertrude Street, Fitzroy.
Often when I fall for a garment, I realise later rather than sooner that (duh) I love it because it speaks to me of dance. I particularly adore warm-up wear, and simple costumes that take the performer just one or two steps out of the rehearsal room. This skirt would do just that…
In costume language, its uneven hemline means ‘squalor’, and it should be worn by a romantic orphan. The skirt dances with her as she chassés with a broom, and gathers sympathetically about her knees as she stoops in the cinders to cry at the hearth.
