Disclaimer: before I start, I don’t mean to offend any grandmothers. I love old people (especially if they’ve got cardigans and cookies)!

Escaping the world’s turmoil was the challenge for fashion designers this fall/winter; fashion designers worked even harder to promote dreaming and aspiring with their collections. Some payed an homage to a time of excess and too much everything (the 80’s), while others said opted for protection in the form of rigid structures and leather, and then there were those who ran away into the land of folklore and gingerbread men (AKA fierce grannies ran amuck on the runways). John Galliano and Kenzo did just that and immersed us in their fairytale fantasies.

These two collections had different takes on folkloric clothing. Bling vs homey.

John Galliano’s portrayal of the ‘folkloric’ look was inspired by Russian virgin brides and was, without a doubt, a show like no other. The girlish skirts conversed with geometric lines laced throughout the collection (check out those pompoms. They = awesome). All of which were gilded with metallic touches and technological feats of construction.