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Maurice Lynch Music: VOGUE MAGAZINE- CELEBRATES - Ronald Van Der Kemp & Pat Cleveland
Maurice Lynch Music: Vogue Article - RVDK & Pat Cleveland
Hi Fashion & Music World,
Maurice Lynch Music is so excited to have our music mentioned in VOGUE MAGAZINE and other Top Fashion Publications for the Spring 2022 Paris Couture Shows.
Maurice Lynch Music is so excited to have our music mentioned in VOGUE MAGAZINE and other Top Fashion Publications for the Spring 2022 Paris Couture Shows.
Ronald Van Der Kemp
SPRING 2022 COUTURE
January 25, 2022
Ronald van der Kemp met Pat Cleveland last year and felt an “instant spiritual connection” with the iconic 71-year-old model. Cleveland opens and closes his spring 2022 video, which replaces the runway show that had to be scuttled due to COVID. To start Cleveland wears a full-length black coat dress with accentuated hips, and to finish she’s singing an original song, “I’m Falling in Love” by songwriter and producer Maurice Lynch on stage at Amsterdam’s famous Club Paradiso in a black evening gown with a tulle capelet and petticoat underskirt, both made from materials from previous RVDK collections. Cleveland is working on an album of new music, and Van der Kemp called this filmed preview, “a present for the fashion world.”
The Dutch designer’s collections always exist in counterpoint to those of the made-to-measure houses he shows alongside; Van der Kemp uses waste materials, vintage scraps, and bolts of fabric he’s accumulated over years. The guy doesn’t even like to toss flowers when a bouquet has passed its peak. Many of the embellishments on these clothes were achieved by dipping real petals in resin. Other details, like the rose that Cleveland clutches in Look 1, were made from melted-down pewter plates sourced at thrift stores. But a couture week that has so far been marked by a tamping down of the flourishes that often distinguish it—blame the pandemic, blame the wild swings on Wall Street—has put Van der Kemp’s exuberance in sharp relief.
Who else is showing a hand-painted gown with sculptural shoulders-out-to-there? A mono-legged asymmetrical disco bird jersey jumpsuit with hand-pleated silk organza wings? A matching jacket and jeans made from discarded denim spliced and shaped into an alligator scale motif? Or a party dress crafted from interlocking, geometric slices of eco felt? Couture’s most flamboyant customers—and we all know they’re out there—are about to get a lesson in sustainable design, and they’re going to have a hell of a lot of fun doing it.
Maurice Lynch
Producer
