Red Red Blood {SS ‘12}
Milk Studios, dusk, 11 September 2011

Katie Gallagher’s Red Red Blood does not incite gore or horror.
Nay, this is not an old crimson red; this is a young, fresh hue,
a cause for thirst. With sharp nails and salacious eyelashes maidens
slice through vertically planted cylindrical obstacles.
One swipe and skin will break; one glance and your heart will palpitate.

This collection is ruddy-concealed restlessness, the devil inside that
we all wrestle with.

Ms. Gallagher’s creative process begins two dimensionally on a stretched canvas. She imagines a scenario or a mythical universe with stories, personalities, moods, ideals and attitudes. The characters within the universe must be clothed, and Ms. Gallagher is the proverbial village couturier. Each look has a discretionary context and manifestation.

Katie Gallagher invites us to be characters in her narrative while remaining true to her unique aesthetic of gorgeous gothic with an eloquent edge. Clothing does not keep the heart beating or the brain churning,
in fact “clothes aren’t really at the center of [her] interests: the people that wear them and their ideals are.” She tries to create what she herself would love to be wearing, and fortunately for her, a lot of other civilians love to wear it too.

- Elizabeth Katharine James