Business In the Front, Party In the Back: Mullet Dresses Are A Hit At Milan Fashion Week
A ruched, pink tie-dye dress with floats down the runway at Roberto Cavalli. Photo: Getty Images
The mullet was the signature hairstyle of rockers like Billy Ray Cyrus and Joan Jett, and this Milan Fashion Week, it’s also creeping up on us as a trend to watch. Not the hairstyle, which I find unacceptable no matter how many hipsters try to argue with me, but rather the mullet-shape skirt and dress. As the saying goes, the pieces we’ve seen this week are all business in the front and a party at the back. In this case though, it’s all party! The style first appeared on the runway of Blumarine’s sister label, Blugirl, where Anna Molinari, Milan’s answer to Carolina Herrera (aka Italy’s national treasure) had girls with legs as long as Route 66 sashay down the runway in long ruffled skirts that were short in the front and long and flowing in the back. Then at Peter Dundas’s debut at Roberto Cavalli, model Maartje Verhoef came down in a T-shirt and a leather skirt and tied around her waist was a train of ruffled fabulousness that would make any of RuPaul’s girls green with envy! At today’s last show of the day, Dean and Dan of DSquared had the same idea with a pleated chiffon layer that was attached over sexy minidresses for maximum drama. Now if this is not the ultimate in peacocking, I don’t know what is!
Working the flamenco style at Blugirl. Photo: Getty Images
Model Maartje Verhoef wears a leather skirt with silk, ruffled attachment at Roberto Cavalli. Photo: Getty Images
Alessandra Ambrosio walks at the Dsquared2 show with a pink chiffon layer tied around her waist. Photo: Getty Images
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