Cover up

I have a kind of fascination with volume and I'm talking volume of extreme proportions. I like the way that after eating a full trifle (with some aid of my boyfriend), or when I feel like a giant among the average 5ft woman where I live, that stupendous amounts of fabric, or equally (though I've not had the personal experience) shoulder pads up to your ears can make you suddenly feel pretty damn tiny. I guess it's similar to the 'large bag syndrome', apparently suffered by physically minute celebrities such as Mary Kate Olsen and Mischa Barton (in the size zero days), where a bag more than capable of holding every possible amenity you could need on a daily basis including your dog and potentially a boyfriend, makes the holder in comparison, look on par with a borrower. Such sartorial proportions are potentially best achieved by Maison Martin Margiela. I know many people argue that Margiela's earlier days were his best, and that some reviews of  his 2010 collections were disappointing to be polite, but the more recent collections appeal to me most. Fall 07 and 08 provided some of the silhouettes I'd love to shroud myself in - there's something empowering in such a structured shape, yet you also feeling contrastingly vulnerable inside all the extremes of material. 

For S/S 2010 such volume was moved down to the feet, which is a look that I hope catches on in the mainstream; though when you think we only saw last year, the shoulder pads that Margiela was creating in '07 I might be waiting a long time! The first few pieces I instantly wanted; it was mainly the boots that had the volume I love, but I liked the casual look of the oversize tee and the interesting detail on the shirt.