I'd recently become enamored of the label after seeing their FW12 ready to wear collection.
My favorite pieces from the collection (namely, the above) felt to me like a high-low mix of 1930's styles and influences. It struck me that the 1930's is an era constantly invoked as the height of Hollywood glamour, a lifestyle in stark contrast to the experiences of the average American during the Great Depression. Indeed, that heyday of Hollywood may have been buoyed up and sustained by the need for escapism at that time; movie ticket sales always rise during times of economic strife.
I imagined it quite likely a woman living in the direst of circumstances in the 30's might have escaped into a fantasy now and again, that she was Jean Harlow or Greta Garbo. Or even just a fantasy that she could experience the glamourous lifestyle afforded to Hollywood actresses.
Moments in the above Creatures of the Wind line felt to me as just this: a harsh reality in the midst of escaping into a dream, an attempt to create a fantasy with only modest materials at hand.
