Miguel Adrover is/was a Fuckin' Genius.

one of the very first designers that got me REALLY into fashion (after my yohji phase but pre-belgians) was miguel adrover. it helped that he was really "downtown" in a way that really appealed to me at the time. however, while a lot of my appreciation for other downtown darlings faded away (e.g., my brief obsession with michael and hushi, ummm...stop making things out of circle threeasfour nee asfour, etc.), i will always have a spot in my heart for the strange awkward proportions and effortlessness of miguel adrover. because after you get through all the posturing (sending a burberry mack inside out and backwards down the runway, making dresses out of quentin crisp's discarded mattress), the clothes he sent out were good and kinda counterintuitively timeless for a "provocateur." 

i recently went back to his 2000-01 collections and i can't help but notice how FUCKIN GREAT they are. i mean, sure, they're overlong and mostly unedited meditations on whatever tangent he was currently pre-occupied with, but i mean, check this shit out!

i would wear the fuck out of these:

how fuckin' dries are the first and third looks here? the silk basketball uniform is so right on, i can't even start. and i even like the subverted omayra school girl/hoodrat in the middle:

this look from spring '01 looks like something you could buy at oak now, almost 10 years later:

pre-raf primary color-blocked suits with jazz shoes for spring 02:

and finally, these two looks KILL me. FUCKIN' KILL ME:

that shit is INSANE! all of this would look MAJORLY good MAJORLY now. i just read a great article about him circa when he was a fashion darling that made me wish he would design again and not just for weird german organic clothing brands but i guess it's better than nothing.

ps. OMG, BLACK MODELS!