Sunday, February 18, 2018

Gareth Pugh ... fall 2018 LFW



Having followed him every season since his start it always delights me when one of his collections is especially significant.  His current collection is a display of his extreme skills and talents. This is a young man who understands fashion, not so much the wearability or salability aspects to a great degree but the fantasy, the spectacle and the glory of fashion. No matter the back story just look at the freakin clothes… they are amazing… maybe even astounding. He is artist, designer, technician, and visionary.
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This was no absurd gratuitous display of exaggeration (MJ) to engender shock and awe but rather a presentation of his vision but in varying degrees from the almost parody of the Bob Mackie/Carol Burnett/  Scarlett O’Hara complete with curtain rod shoulder line to the slickest, sexiest and most incredible and  meticulously rendered of creations.  The leopard and the patent pieces are unquestionably statement enough but it is with the pinstripes, leathers and worsted gray that this young man shows his versatility and his repertoire of endless possibilities ... to me he is one of the most,  if not the most,  promising and gifted of the young crop of designers of his generation.
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He is in every sense a créateur, a designer ... the clothes appear to be impeccably and flawlessly made.. they have an edge.. They have a chic about them .. He is a tailor, a dressmaker and a full on craftsman. 
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I was recently criticized for supposedly demeaning young talent ...let me point out that even day one Gareth Pugh brought something incredible to the table ... it was outrageous, it wasn’t me too and he has evolved with ups and downs in a variety of incarnations but it was all his and it was quite obvious to me that he was on a mission to change how we see fashion and show the world the his powers that he possessed. 
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So like it or not ... BRAVO Gareth Pugh for one more collection that makes fashion worth being part of and for not being one of the sheep!

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