Vox Humana, our latest addition to Future Tense from the American design duo Kate and Laura Mulleavy of Rodarte and filmmaker Griffin, offers a Lynchian, dystopian vision of Los Angeles with a menacing twist. Rodarte's interpretation of modern women has taken a darker turn with their A/W 2008 collection, inspired by Japanese horror films, and accordingly, ’Vox Humana’- Latin for 'Human Voice' - examines this decidedly sinister side of their design ethos. Featuring one of the sisters’ signature (and suitably distressed) 'slasher' dresses in plucked and laddered mohair, a setting straight from their Californian hometown and a melancholy soundtrack sung by their grandmother in the 1940s, Vox Humana is a resolutely personal creation. Nevertheless, as with their painstakingly handwrought creations, it represents a new aesthetic with major global impact.