Right, I've had some fashion tabs open on Chrome for EVER, and what the hell. #FashionWatch

Ashi Studio, out of Lebanon (really active fashion hub growing there), with a branch office in London. We'll look at some of their smaller, older collections.

They manipulate fabric in unusual ways, or at least ways that we don't see too often. We're starting with spring/summer couture, 2016, which they showed in Paris. It looks Mostly Bridal to me.

I'm putting all shots of the same dress into a single tweet or we'll be here all night. The dress up there, the skirt isn't much of a big deal, but the jacket over it is unusual, and a great problem-solver for formal wedding/reception issues.

I know some of us automatically hate peplums, but this is kind of fun from the back, and makes her waist look TINY.

The front, however, reveals the mullet and I can't sigh any more heavily.

Fit the bodice properly, hang the right skirt, it'd be fantastic.

While we've all yelled over nude wedding dresses, I personally wouldn't find this offensive going down the aisle of a holy place, the right veil would also cover things even more modestly.

The front feels a little Barbie to me, I think it's the stiff straight skirt.

But y'see what I'm saying about how they handle the fabric. I'm sure it's more horse-hair and crinoline, but I'm imagining giant vats of fabric starch.

Elizabethan mullet-skirted day suit. -squints- I have questions.

Now, I'm not saying everything is GOOD. I'm saying most of it is INTERESTING. I'd never wear the bell skirt on this, in a million years. But it makes for an unusual silhouette for a bride determined to be different. (I'd go with dip-dye for different, but that's me.)

For the bride HELLBENT on being different, they've got you covered. Literally and figuratively. The ruffled bits are over the top and I really love the beaded open back of reasonable proportion.

But I can't help but wonder what kind of clown show it'd look like, walking down the aisle, if each of those ruffles is attached to a separate leg. (It looks like they are.)

I BELIEVE these are the same gown. I might be wrong.

Got a definite space senator getting married vibe, it's different, but not OMG SO WON'T WORK different.

I don't even know.

I find myself hoping it's pants, and not slit all the way up, that's when you know you're in trouble.

The non-collar and the side panniers... so many questions.

We're now hitting the 'regular' evening wear and/or bridesmaids dresses, and I repeat, this is INTERESTING, from a TECHNICAL viewpoint, I'm not saying it's wearable or flattering.

This one would work if you took the starch out of the skirts. It'd even be pretty. However.

They are playing with silhouette which we've discussed about a billion times around here. These aren't my favorite, but the women still look feminine and attractive, unlike some things from other designers.

A lot of this has potential, if they laid off the starch.

Look at this, it's gorgeous, covers modesty customs for most of the world, and is versatile.

I kinda want that full length jacket. Does it come in bronze and turquoise?

I'm also wondering what the deal is with all the blurgh colors, might be a modesty issue again, but come on, everyone deserves some color.

But the cut of the dress, it's perfect, we've worn this silhouette for ever.

Fabulous dress in lavender. I don't mind the mullets when it's just enough to make walking easier and not a difference of four feet. This one's pushing it a little, but it's lovely.

Friends don't let friends wear side poofs. Save yourselves. Save your friends.

Very similar dress with a shorter skirt and peplum.

Yes, yes, peplums are evil. Except they make your waist look smaller.

And why the fuck doesn't twitter know "peplum"? I understand niddy-noddy, but PEPLUM?

Space senator's bathrobe.

Seriously, though. This is a dress for going into battle. Wear ten pounds of Mikimoto Pearls and wear it to the BAFTAs next year and make a snide joke about William, kind of a dress. Someone call Helen Mirren.

It's like Marie Antoinette got too close to the fire and thankfully it simply melted away rather than burning her.

Where's the rest of the dress? It's like someone simply sliced a piece out. But it has a bustle?? What the hell do we call that silhouette? Not pregnant.

More of this kind of stuff.

Dressmakers, sing out if you know,

How do you sit in one of these without everything being visible? Or are they stand-up-only dresses? (Those exist, though they're ridiculous.)

Flip side, half-serious, you could hide some very large hips in these outfits. Just sayin'.

Louisa May Alcott channeling a lace inner tube?

Are those tights or pants? -squinting- They do improve and use their powers for good, we'll do a later collection. But what??

Feathers for the modesty issue. Okay then. You'll die of heat stroke, but no one will see up your skirt, fair trade off.

Also this is either a Ravenclaw dress or an "then he ran into my knife. He ran into my knife ten times." kind of a dress.

Kind of meh on the lace dress, and kind of meh on that type of skirt draping over the hips, but that's one hell of a fitting job.

That's why I chose these guys, even when you're wondering what the hell, the skill is impressive.

That's the local schoolmarm in the old west, who runs the bordello on off hours.

And last one, another mullet, but not too bad, all things considered.

Yay! Let's find a new one to compare it to.