Fashion trends are complex, malleable creatures and they rarely travel alone. They merge with one another, influence eachother, evolve and divide. This pictorial by Txema Yeste for Harper’s Bazaar Spain is a visual realisation of this fact, flirting with several different trends that are – for 2011 at least – closely intertwined.
Punk in it’s most recent incarnation is the key focus of the shoot, but married into it is a Western feel with leather embroidery and lashings of fringing. A styling clash of punk and cowboy is not uncommon right now, but Yeste’s shoot, styled by Juan Cebrian, also adds in a third theme: a touch of the Gothic.
And it’s that Gothic hint that produces the most striking image of the shoot (bar for, perhaps, a fully black leather fringed outfit atop a black horse); a pair of black shoes with silver crucifixes as their heels.
Do we expect to hear some backlash over the cross, ultimately considered a symbol of Christianity, being stamped into the ground with every step? Unlike the outrage over the Lisa Blue Lakshmi swimsuit, it seems unlikely. We’d as always like to hear your thoughts in the comments below.
Click on the thumbnails to view the full shoot, which stars Anna de Rijk.
Anna de Rijk behind the scenes (video) (30 May 2011)
