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Mary Katrantzou Makes the Case for Naked Butterfly Dresses at China Fashion Week
by Ashley Hoffman | March 28, 2016 at 10:32 AM
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Yesterday while you and Jon Lovitz were enjoying the company of Easter bunnies, Mary Katrazou showed at China Fashion Week. We don’t know what crazy art teacher visited her in a dream, but the result was campy. Girl has got some zany ideas for you this fall, even for her. Get ready for butterflies and FIRE.

To the looks!

Somehow this butterfly appliqued across her chest looks like adulting. With the thin pleating, we’d definitely throw this on an Emma Stone character. Lace-trimmed hemline should be brought up a few smidges though.

BEIJING, CHINA - MARCH 27:  A model showcases designs on the runway at Mary Katrantzou Collection show during the Mercedes-Benz China Fashion Week Autumn/Winter 2016/2017 at 751D.PARK on March 27, 2016 in Beijing, China.  (Photo by Lintao Zhang/Getty Images)

BEIJING, CHINA – MARCH 27: A model showcases designs on the runway at Mary Katrantzou Collection show during the Mercedes-Benz China Fashion Week Autumn/Winter 2016/2017 at 751D.PARK on March 27, 2016 in Beijing, China. (Photo by Lintao Zhang/Getty Images)

If you wanted to know what it would look like for sconces, hearts, and snakes to explode on the top of a jacket, here we are. Somewhere Lisa Frank devotees are shedding a tear over this textile work.

BEIJING, CHINA - MARCH 27:  A model showcases designs on the runway at Mary Katrantzou Collection show during the Mercedes-Benz China Fashion Week Autumn/Winter 2016/2017 at 751D.PARK on March 27, 2016 in Beijing, China.  (Photo by Lintao Zhang/Getty Images)

BEIJING, CHINA – MARCH 27: A model showcases designs on the runway at Mary Katrantzou Collection show during the Mercedes-Benz China Fashion Week Autumn/Winter 2016/2017 at 751D.PARK on March 27, 2016 in Beijing, China. (Photo by Lintao Zhang/Getty Images)

Serving forest dwelling nymphette. This voluminous floaty skirt/jeweled arms hybrid could work for an outdoor dinner party. This is the naked dress that could seriously distract onlookers from the naked bod because so many colorform type shapes near the nether regions.

BEIJING, CHINA - MARCH 27:  A model showcases designs on the runway at Mary Katrantzou Collection show during the Mercedes-Benz China Fashion Week Autumn/Winter 2016/2017 at 751D.PARK on March 27, 2016 in Beijing, China.  (Photo by Lintao Zhang/Getty Images)

BEIJING, CHINA – MARCH 27: A model showcases designs on the runway at Mary Katrantzou Collection show during the Mercedes-Benz China Fashion Week Autumn/Winter 2016/2017 at 751D.PARK on March 27, 2016 in Beijing, China. (Photo by Lintao Zhang/Getty Images)

Our takeaway from this is that you can still enjoy childlike patterns as long as it’s only on half of you, and the other half is reasonable. They’ve used the prettiest fabric for the top.

BEIJING, CHINA - MARCH 27:  A model showcases designs on the runway at Mary Katrantzou Collection show during the Mercedes-Benz China Fashion Week Autumn/Winter 2016/2017 at 751D.PARK on March 27, 2016 in Beijing, China.  (Photo by Lintao Zhang/Getty Images)

BEIJING, CHINA – MARCH 27: A model showcases designs on the runway at Mary Katrantzou Collection show during the Mercedes-Benz China Fashion Week Autumn/Winter 2016/2017 at 751D.PARK on March 27, 2016 in Beijing, China. (Photo by Lintao Zhang/Getty Images)

O.K. this coat is fire. It’s streestyle photographer catnip with the evil cartoon character, but it would actually go with plenty of stuff for fall.

BEIJING, CHINA - MARCH 27:  A model showcases designs on the runway at Mary Katrantzou Collection show during the Mercedes-Benz China Fashion Week Autumn/Winter 2016/2017 at 751D.PARK on March 27, 2016 in Beijing, China.  (Photo by Lintao Zhang/Getty Images)

BEIJING, CHINA – MARCH 27: A model showcases designs on the runway at Mary Katrantzou Collection show during the Mercedes-Benz China Fashion Week Autumn/Winter 2016/2017 at 751D.PARK on March 27, 2016 in Beijing, China. (Photo by Lintao Zhang/Getty Images)

Just imagine this one on Amal. One third white witch, but mostly a board game. Start churning out the dresses with random figure skating costume patterns right now, Zara.

BEIJING, CHINA - MARCH 27:  A model showcases designs on the runway at Mary Katrantzou Collection show during the Mercedes-Benz China Fashion Week Autumn/Winter 2016/2017 at 751D.PARK on March 27, 2016 in Beijing, China.  (Photo by Lintao Zhang/Getty Images)

BEIJING, CHINA – MARCH 27: A model showcases designs on the runway at Mary Katrantzou Collection show during the Mercedes-Benz China Fashion Week Autumn/Winter 2016/2017 at 751D.PARK on March 27, 2016 in Beijing, China. (Photo by Lintao Zhang/Getty Images)

We appreciate a great blaze of fire from which flowers and hearts burst forth from. This is a statement coat for the rambunctious.

BEIJING, CHINA - MARCH 27:  A model showcases designs on the runway at Mary Katrantzou Collection show during the Mercedes-Benz China Fashion Week Autumn/Winter 2016/2017 at 751D.PARK on March 27, 2016 in Beijing, China.  (Photo by Lintao Zhang/Getty Images)

BEIJING, CHINA – MARCH 27: A model showcases designs on the runway at Mary Katrantzou Collection show during the Mercedes-Benz China Fashion Week Autumn/Winter 2016/2017 at 751D.PARK on March 27, 2016 in Beijing, China. (Photo by Lintao Zhang/Getty Images)

Are you ready to be layering the colorful insect fur stoles over something that looks like the interior of a ’90s Trapper Keeper? This is something that looks positively dynamite, but then somebody falls prey to it and it’s far too busy.

BEIJING, CHINA - MARCH 27:  A model showcases designs on the runway at Mary Katrantzou Collection show during the Mercedes-Benz China Fashion Week Autumn/Winter 2016/2017 at 751D.PARK on March 27, 2016 in Beijing, China.  (Photo by Lintao Zhang/Getty Images)

BEIJING, CHINA – MARCH 27: A model showcases designs on the runway at Mary Katrantzou Collection show during the Mercedes-Benz China Fashion Week Autumn/Winter 2016/2017 at 751D.PARK on March 27, 2016 in Beijing, China. (Photo by Lintao Zhang/Getty Images)

O.K. this is rock and roll, and the panels emphasize the shoulders in a way that’s kind of bewitching. She may have missed her calling as a Wes Anderson playwright prodigy costumer.

BEIJING, CHINA - MARCH 27:  A model showcases designs on the runway at Mary Katrantzou Collection show during the Mercedes-Benz China Fashion Week Autumn/Winter 2016/2017 at 751D.PARK on March 27, 2016 in Beijing, China.  (Photo by Lintao Zhang/Getty Images)

BEIJING, CHINA – MARCH 27: A model showcases designs on the runway at Mary Katrantzou Collection show during the Mercedes-Benz China Fashion Week Autumn/Winter 2016/2017 at 751D.PARK on March 27, 2016 in Beijing, China. (Photo by Lintao Zhang/Getty Images)

If only this metallic starry pattern which we recognize from throwback sticker booklets started a little lower, it’d be much more flattering. Otherwise the seams don’t work for too many body types. But we’re here for the jeweled snakes. 2016 will be the year no one is allowed in the party unless they have a minimum of four patterns.

BEIJING, CHINA - MARCH 27:  A model showcases designs on the runway at Mary Katrantzou Collection show during the Mercedes-Benz China Fashion Week Autumn/Winter 2016/2017 at 751D.PARK on March 27, 2016 in Beijing, China.  (Photo by Lintao Zhang/Getty Images)

BEIJING, CHINA – MARCH 27: A model showcases designs on the runway at Mary Katrantzou Collection show during the Mercedes-Benz China Fashion Week Autumn/Winter 2016/2017 at 751D.PARK on March 27, 2016 in Beijing, China. (Photo by Lintao Zhang/Getty Images)

Send us this jacket pronto so we can cut school and join the rodeo. She’s had a lot more twisted things than this, and this jacket with denim would never, ever go out of steeze.

BEIJING, CHINA - MARCH 27:  A model showcases designs on the runway at Mary Katrantzou Collection show during the Mercedes-Benz China Fashion Week Autumn/Winter 2016/2017 at 751D.PARK on March 27, 2016 in Beijing, China.  (Photo by Lintao Zhang/Getty Images)

BEIJING, CHINA – MARCH 27: A model showcases designs on the runway at Mary Katrantzou Collection show during the Mercedes-Benz China Fashion Week Autumn/Winter 2016/2017 at 751D.PARK on March 27, 2016 in Beijing, China. (Photo by Lintao Zhang/Getty Images)

The patches belong a Buzzfeed fashion hack listicle for the wannabe streetstyle star, but this was the most practical daywear of everything.

BEIJING, CHINA - MARCH 27:  A model showcases designs on the runway at Mary Katrantzou Collection show during the Mercedes-Benz China Fashion Week Autumn/Winter 2016/2017 at 751D.PARK on March 27, 2016 in Beijing, China.  (Photo by Lintao Zhang/Getty Images)

BEIJING, CHINA – MARCH 27: A model showcases designs on the runway at Mary Katrantzou Collection show during the Mercedes-Benz China Fashion Week Autumn/Winter 2016/2017 at 751D.PARK on March 27, 2016 in Beijing, China. (Photo by Lintao Zhang/Getty Images)

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