Vanessa Mooney Spring 2017 Collection
JOYRIDE
Producer: Jane Derryberry
Model: Paige Reifler
Stylist: Kelley Ash
Hair: Tony Vin
Make up: Samuel Paul
Video: Davey Cooperwasser
Joyride (noun): A ride taken
purely for pleasure.
A joyride is never about the
destination, but the moments along the way.
This collection is about that feeling.
That unleashed feeling of a wild spirit with new-found freedom. It’s that
feeling when you first get your license, and the whole world opens up. It’s
those summer nights when you smoked your first cigarette, or flashed your first
car, or made out with the lead singer of your favorite punk band. The time of
pinky swears and young love. Leaning on chain link fences, eating pop rocks in
the sun. When you’d drive around to weird places and stop somewhere for no
other reason than it was pretty, and you felt like stopping.
It’s that teenage nothingness, with no
worries or plans. When small moments consume you, and change you. And all your
pitstops are tiny revolutions, landmarks on the road to something
greater.
I’ve always been inspired by times of
revolution. When I was a teenager I aimed to move against the grain. I
worshipped counter culture. That, I think, is when fashion is at its best. Because
renewed purpose and creativity occur in those moments in time when people feel
a need for change. The most beautiful things emerge from the cocoon of status
quo.
Right now feels like one of those
times. It’s never been so important to reveal ourselves, with wild abandonment,
and have faith in the adventure. Live for those moments, both small and large.
Feel the freedom, like air between your fingers, driving up the coast with your
arm out the window. Let’s leave town and stand up for a cause. Let's worship
that.
Let’s worship the pit stops. Let's
worship the feeling of the sun on our skin. Let’s worship the small daisies we
find on the ground. Let’s not think too seriously. But let’s be serious about
what we think. Let’s have less worries. More joyrides.
A collection filled with Arrows,
Arrowheads, Peace Signs, Falcon Talons & Circles. Daisys, Crotchet,
Turqouise, Bone, Abalone, Gold Collars, Crosses, Leather, Fringe Necklaces
& Earrings & Denim all symbolizing what this next season is all about.
XOXO, VANESSA
