

Mark, who worked on them with the makeup artist Fara Homidi. The pimple-patch gloves came from a desire to “elevate the collection in unexpected ways,” said Ms. Tiny star-shaped pimple patches made by the Starface skin-care company. The idea, as Fashionista put it in 2019, is to “make acne instagrammable.”) The black version seen on the Puppets and Puppets runway is not yet for sale. Fans of the brand often wear them out and about. The punchline was that they weren’t stickers at all: They were pimple patches by the skin care company Starface, whose signature product is a tiny star-shaped hydrocolloid patch that comes in various colors. From a distance, the stickers looked like opera gloves, an omnipresent accessory on runways these days. Mark said, for about three hours while hundreds of black star-shaped stickers were applied to her forearms. It was on the arms of a model who sat “very patiently,” Ms. (Every season she releases new iterations most recently, they included green velvet and leopard print bags affixed with bruised bananas, fried eggs, candy-coated brownies à la Little Debbie and a landline telephone.)īut the best joke from her latest runway show wasn’t on a bag. NEW YORK - Carly Mark, the designer of Puppets and Puppets, is known to enjoy a Surrealist “ little joke.” Her best-known creation is a black leather purse slapped with a lifelike resin sculpture of a chocolate-chip cookie. Puppets and Puppets “Gloves” Made of Stars Not to mention the impeccable tailoring for both men and women, particularly in calico and a deadstock bluebell-printed twill. The audience was especially charmed by the bunny ears, which came covered in corduroy, leather and striped jersey. Daley runway had grassy knolls and was strewn with flowers. Sackville-West owned one of England’s prettiest country gardens, Sissinghurst Castle, and the S.S. “Rabbit” was the code word the two women used in their letters when referring to their romance. The main inspiration for the collection, he later explained, was the forbidden lesbian love affair between the British writers Vita Sackville-West and Violet Trefusis. Daley show since then, at London Fashion Week, bunnies were clearly on the brain. Steven Stokey-Daley hopped onto the fashion radar earlier this year when he won the LVMH Prize, the most prestigious young talent award in the business. The final giveaway? The recurring “Bunny Boy” slogan on sleeveless vests and wool sweaters, or wild hare prints on oversize rain macs. Then came a model with painted face whiskers, a button nose and two large bunny ears, later followed by another, and then another. A pair of embroidered blue rabbits, scampering with paws skyward, across a chic cream-collared polo shirt. LONDON - It began with a playful glimpse.
