One of the fashion world’s most colorful creatures, Moschino creative director Jeremy Scott, popped in to the Italian fashion house’s West Hollywood boutique Thursday night to celebrate the brand’s collaboration with Cartoon Network's Powerpuff Girls, who were featured in Moschino’s Carwash Couture spring 2016 collection.
Guests including singer-songwriter Justine Skye and Empire's Serayah McNeill, both 20, were in their element as they milled about the Powerpuff paraphernalia which harkened back to the show's debut in 1998 — when they were both of cartoon-watching age.
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The brightly-lit space was filled wall-to-wall with sugar, spice and everything nice (that is, cookies, cocktails and a photobooth with props) as well as the funky, pop art-like collection starring Blossom, Bubbles and ButterCup. The 18-piece-collection of accessories, sweaters, dresses and swimwear ($80 - $1,250), is now available in stores and online — just in time for Cartoon Network's new animated reboot out this spring.
Pret a Reporter chatted with Scott about his love of cartoons (The Looney Toons, Super Mario Brothers and Spongebob have all been featured on his Moschino runways) as well as what's up next for his own line.
hey're the same team that does Spongebob. For my first Moschino collection I did a Spongebob collaboration and I think that all just came about because I had taken a Spongebob toy that I found at the the flea market, and I dipped it in gold and I had it gold-plated and put it on a necklace and I wore it at the end of my show. And they were like, 'We think you like Spongebob.
and I was like, 'I love Spongebob.' So they were like, 'If you ever want to work with us, then let’s do something.
So that’s how I got to know the group, so when I was thinking of things and the carwash — somehow the Powerpuff girls made me think of carwash because they’re kind of like, flying around. Maybe it was Bubbles.
There was something very abstract in my head but there’s something that connects. And I was working on this print, the “Fresh” print, and I thought they would be so cute having this element in here. And it just kind of all fell together.
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I don’t know, I love them all, but I guess I’m more of a Bubbles. I’m always very upbeat, you know, I’m less gloomy but I’m always kind of like, ‘Yeah it’s fine, I’ll get it done’ — even when things are awful I’m always like [high-pitch voice], ‘It’s OK.
Well we did the Looney Toons collaboration last fall and that was really fun, and the Super Mario Brothers capsule collection, so yeah I’m kind of cartoon couture over here. But I love it. I love that it has memories for people and it connects to people and it’s a different kind of bridging a gap of something new with something familiar — in a way sort of blurring it together.
It’s just a love, actually. I love those things and I remember playing Super Mario Brothers when I was little and just having fun with it, and I thought, 'Well gosh, yeah I’d love to have a backpack with like all the characters on it.
So some of that stuff is like that — it’s fulfilling childhood fantasies and things like that. And I love that it does connect and it’s kind of like, you know, people are like, 'Oh my god, I love that!' Or it’s nostalgic — to give a little shout out to something I loved as a kid.
Good! I mean, you know, it just comes a long so I just have to be open and ready for it. I mean, I’ve done all my work so it’s really more now just the everything just coming together.
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