Libertine is a collaboration between LA fashion designer/actor Johnson Hartig and New York graphic designer/singer Cindy Greene. he hunts for vintage cast-offs around the US and she silk-screens and heat-transfers images onto them. their latest collection is very britishy -- a vivienne westwoodesque aggressiveness, british romantic literary influence (think keats and shelley) and is very britishly ironic. but at the same time they're using a lot of typical 1980s poofy prom-dress shapes which is very american.

and they've used a bunch of really old models like nancy ozelli and sigrid rothe, along with young sexy ones like jacquetta wheeler.



that's nancy ozelli on the left, wearing the signature purple pantyhose with a red silk-screened dress that says "drink old england dry". and jacquetta wheeler, wearing a totally romantic tulle and chiffon skirt with a silk top. and in the picture below, you can see that the top has a silk-screened picture on it. totally funky.













this skirt's really weird and a bit weird although the silk-screenedness is still rather fascinating. however the point of this picture is to see that nancy ozelli's trench, from the above picture, has a silk-screened picture on the back of it, and jacquetta wheeler's silk shirt also has a picture on the back.













very cute, and a very unusual shade of blue. the silhouette is sort of jackie kennedy but the material is whimsical and different.
















this dress is adorable, and it's got the almost-tulip-shaped poof skirt which has been very in. it's like an uber-funky version of a 1980s prom dress.

















sigrid rothe, another silver-haired model. this is totally vivienne westwood, and a new take on victorian :D (yes that's queen victoria silk-screened on the skirt)
















i like this dress! again a sort of 1980s prom dress silhouette, but the colour and the length and the abundant necklaces -- very modern. and i'm glad they went without the purple tights on this one, it looks tighter
















I like the colour of this dress, it would be cute and normal-looking and flirty and the purple tights make it very marc-jacobs-funky. i hate the hair though, why on earth do they have beehives on their heads. i think it's supposed to be part of the 1980sish thing.













the dress itself is a most horrendous eggyolk-yellow but it's an interesting flapper dress shape. and the coat's very Wow. anyway the colour combination is really quite bold, and it might work for some people.














another coat. the pink's a bit in-your-face, but the incredibly cool thing is that the lining is silk-screened with victorian-style cameos. cameos are those oval-shaped things with faces or pictures on them, they're used as pendants on chokers, brooches, etc.















i love this outfit. the dress is fantastic, with the almost-innocence of the stereotypical prom-dress silhouette, the tulle and the gauze layers, but it's absolutely unique, with the flowers and the black-and-white pictures. and the blazer over it adds a casual, modern, androgynous touch that pulls everything together, including the super-long necklaces. and purple tights! haha i love how every collection has one whimsical staple.












the best part of the show haha. there were a lot of other man-fashion things in the show, but it wasn't interesting. mainly blazers with these kind of short white shorts with a silk-screened thing on them. anyway men's fashion doesn't really interest me at this point. but this picture is nice and cheeky.