STYLE: GOLD COSTUMES DECONSTRUCTED

For the week where we all, no matter what our age, get a golden ticket to play dress up, we’re looking to the iconic, city-defining structures of the world’s most renowned architects for hyper–constructed, performative costume inspiration.The Guggenheim Bilbao—the curvaceous, free-form global calling card of Basque country; Gaudi’s Sagrada Familia—a gothic basilica turned nouveau masterpiece. These are the unambiguous statement pieces of the towns they reside in. Storied structures. Destinations and characters in their own right. And now, the point of vision for a gold-dipped, decidedly glamorous woman. She’s taking a trip through the structures of these buildings and dressing herself in their image to match.

-Ashley Simpson

October 2012