I distinctly remember one year of Comic Relief when they were flogging 3-D glasses to experience Comic Relief in 3-D and sadly after all the anticipation, I failed to see anything through those red and cyan cellophane lenses. Except everyone came to school and said it was A-MAZ-ING. So I ended up nodding along and saying "Yeah...it was sooooo cool!". This is a similar scenario with Magic Eye pictures - I would look REALLY hard and still see nothing whilst everyone was making "I TOTALLY see it!" declarations.
There was a time when I would question whether there was something wrong with my eyes. How does one explain to an optician that they can't see 3-D video and Magic Eye pics. When I got the Marios Schwab invite for the A/W 09-10 show, I was a) wondering whether we'd have to use the glasses or b) whether I'd be actually see anything and whether I'd have to make up a "Oh yeah it was amaaazing!" line afterwards.
Thankfully I FINALLY saw the whole 3-D dealio. Schwab sent out anaglyphic print dresses that were built up in contours of layers and volume and as they moved the pattern on the dresses looked like they were in motion too, jutting out in different ways like jagged rock formations. Yes, I could finally describe what I was seeing as opposed to making up some lame fake vision (surely harder than faking an orgasm/high experience if you're not sure what exactly it is you're supposed to be seeing?). 3-D prints aside, I was stunned by Schwab in the ye olde way that I was used to during his first few formative seasons. From exploring more fluid shapes in the past two seasons, there was something harder there again - well, quite literally HARD as Schwab was exploring crystal fissures and the changing state of rocks.
(Photography by Kate Rodgers and Patrick Lindblom)
From the ambiguous rock formations in 3-D on Schwab's dresses, we get something more literal from Dutch fashion collective And Beyond who presented this 3-D based collection last year that consists of patterns where you can make out flowers and palm trees....
Yay, I'm finally getting the hand of this whole 3-D malarky!
