Greatest Hits Agatha Ruiz de la Prada

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HOOP DRESS She has dressed the postmodern generation, the generation that listened to the songs of Alaska and the Pegamoides and beyond. In 1983 Agatha invented a game for children and adults for dressing… dolls? wasp waist? Some sought to sculpt their bodies with hula hoops, others [as the song by this group goes] spent ‘all day dancing and the neighbours wouldn’t stop being a nuisance’. Agatha’s hoop is sexy; it rises and falls saucily, cleverly; it remains intact, rather playful and not at all posh. From the eighties to the first on the spring-summer 2013 catwalk.

Because, as she says, ‘it caused a sensation at bourgeois dinners’. An idea woven for thirty years into a perfect circle.

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HOOP DRESS She has dressed the postmodern generation, the generation that listened to the songs of Alaska and the Pegamoides and beyond. In 1983 Agatha invented a game for children and adults for dressing… dolls? wasp waist? Some sought to sculpt their bodies with hula hoops, others [as the song by this group goes] spent ‘all day dancing and the neighbours wouldn’t stop being a nuisance’. Agatha’s hoop is sexy; it rises and falls saucily, cleverly; it remains intact, rather playful and not at all posh. From the eighties to the first on the spring-summer 2013 catwalk.

Because, as she says, ‘it caused a sensation at bourgeois dinners’. An idea woven for thirty years into a perfect circle.

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The

idea of a

sweet

is often a

POP idea.

Sweets.

I was

obsessed with sweets throughout my whole childhood.

Sweet

dress.

So POP! 16

The

idea of a

sweet

is often a

POP idea.

Sweets.

I was

obsessed with sweets throughout my whole childhood.

Sweet

dress.

So POP! 16

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Agatha for President – the title of the catwalk show that presented the first heart of her career in life. It was the first one to be made of fabric, the first to be stitched on a machine, at the dizzy pace set by the pedal in the mid-eighties. It took the Railway Museum by storm. It was extra-large, from top to toe, as if to make a statement that it is a symbol that invades everything. The symbol of forever, of I do.

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Agatha for President – the title of the catwalk show that presented the first heart of her career in life. It was the first one to be made of fabric, the first to be stitched on a machine, at the dizzy pace set by the pedal in the mid-eighties. It took the Railway Museum by storm. It was extra-large, from top to toe, as if to make a statement that it is a symbol that invades everything. The symbol of forever, of I do.

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CAKE

Sweet and colourful, the first caking-making experience was in 1994. It had layers like wedding cakes. The magazine Amica immortalised the design in a fashion feature published in April 1995. The rest is contemporary history in orange and lemon.

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CAKE

Sweet and colourful, the first caking-making experience was in 1994. It had layers like wedding cakes. The magazine Amica immortalised the design in a fashion feature published in April 1995. The rest is contemporary history in orange and lemon.

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