Quick take

“Each collection begins with a constellation of such images, and from there a loose theme arises. The muted colors and marbled fabrics in the 2009 fall collection were intended to resemble granite, slate, marble: ‘the materials used in the structure of a home,’ the designers wrote in an e-mail. The idea arrived when the sisters drove by a cluster of dilapidated houses alongside the freeway.”

From “Twisted Sisters” by Amanda Fortini, a profile of Kate and Laura Mulleavy and their fashion house Rodarte, in the January 18, 2010 issue of The New Yorker.

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