I've never been blessed with green fingers. You give me a plant and I guarantee you that I will kill it for you within 2 days, not through intention or lack of care. I just don't have an affinity with all things green and leafy. The boyf meekly bought two bunches of daffodils into the house and yup within a day or so, the yellow petals started to brown and as with all dead flowers, I have grown to keep them there as a constant reminder that I'm shit with plants and actually I sort of like the way they look dead and wilting.
Combine that with my reaction to these beautiful petal-adorned leggings created by Panos Yiapanis for the latest issue of Another Man (photographed by Glen Luchford) and my basic instant is to rush out and seek bags of freeze dried rose petals, the sort that's used for wedding confetti or um, seduction aids. Another example of wanting things in editorials that are contextual as opposed to actual garment/product-based.
Boudicca's scanned flowers on their press day PDF further fuels my curiosity about using dried petals on clothes and a quick Flickr search has also yielded more inspiration images. I love the idea of a piece of clothing that has this lifeline on it, that the petals will slowly degrade and fall away leaving a bare skeleton of a dress, skirt or indeed leggings. Sadly I also happen to possess no skills whatsoever to actually put my dried petal garment in motion and can only bound about ideas in my head...
