Fashion File - Imitation of Christ

Imitation of Christ Haute Couture - Fall/Winter 2005

The last time Tara Subkoff was a part of Haute Couture week in Paris, she was staging a guerilla-style performance outside a Dior show in 2002. This season, she’s back, showing couture her way, and she’s enlisted film director Michel Gondry to capture the moment.

Imitation of Christ - Fall/Winter 2002

Imitation of Christ has quickly become a favourite label on the NY scene because its designers, Matt Damhave and Tara Subkoff, go out of their way every season to subvert New York Fashion Week with their wacky shows. The fashion crowd gladly hauled its collective butt uptown to the venerable auction house Sotheby's to check out IOC's latest spectacle, but they were a little unsure about the label's future, thanks to the rumour that Matt and Tara's creative partnership had dissolved. Could this be the end for fashion's rebel pranksters?

Imitation of Christ - Spring/Summer 2002

Fashion's pranksters strike again. They've held shows in funeral homes and movie theaters. They've forced fashion editors to contribute to an anti-sweatshop charity before letting them in to see their show. They are Imitation of Christ and they're definitely not afraid of shaking things up. So what did Tara Subkoff and Matt Damhave, the label's young designers, get up to for Spring 2002? They turned their fashion show inside out.