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//DDD// Creatures of the Wind, Fall Winter 2012

Written by Lynn Furge, Senior Fashion Editor Photography by Billy Rood for www.figphoto.net There are few true story tellers left in fashion and Shane Gabier and Chris Peters of Creatures of the Wind are two of them. CFDA runners up for the Fashion Fund award all eyes were on them this Thursday and being a native Chicagoan myself, I’m just excited to see that people are finally taking serious note of their talent.

Inspired by The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns, and Fairies, a seventeenth-century book by the Scottish Episcopalian minister Robert Kirk, the duo wove a tale of eccentric vagabonds part mystical and the other part carpet bagger. For instance there were multi-patterned mix and match tiered skirts topped with pork-pie hats. Then on the other hand they showed leather red and black striped dress that look like it fell out of London’s Soho district. A Bowie worthy rock and roll blazer here, a floor length plaid tiered ball gown skirt there…French brocades, mohair sweaters, all of it was there and one by one as your eyes passed over the room it seemed more like a cast of characters than a fashion presentation. Which is really quite refreshing.