Yojimbeau

Lulu is really excited about Chloé’s Spring 09 collection, for it is filled with sharp, defined lines, muted earth tones, and blouses, trousers, and skirts which blossom above or below the waist at which they’re cinched; all in all, the collection reminds Lulu very much of the kimonos and samurai outfits she’s used to seeing in her favorite Japanese films. Outfits combining looseness – dropped crotches, billowy shirt arms – and tightness – fitted cuffs, trousers narrowing in the leg to a nearly-fitted above-ankle – are comfortable to wear and achingly chic. Chloé’s Spring collection has the best of both worlds; tomboyish menswear cuts and feminine hourglass shapes. Visit the Chloé site here (the look Lulu illustrated above is number 10 in Spring 09).

By the by, Lulu’s received emails from some of you guys asking about the photos she draws from; you say you can find photos of the garments Lulu discusses, but not always on the models she draws, or posed in the way she’s posed ‘em. That’s because Lulu takes pains to make her drawings unique. Sure, she’s illustrating actual garments, but Lulu thinks it’s much more interesting to imagine her own models rather than re-draw a photo. Sometimes, too, she tries to tie her models into the theme she’s discussing.

The above drawing, for example, has the topknot and all that because Lulu was talking of samurai films – actually, the drawing was MEANT to be posing like Toshiro Mifune in this still from Yojimbo, but Lulu got tired to trying and failing to reproduce that pose. She just gave her drawing a samurai sword and had done with it. But look, here’s one of Lulu’s sketches of Mifune – it’s actually a really difficult pose to draw.

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