Well the much anticipated so called return of media darling
Tom Ford is now a memory. If one was
eagerly anticipating this event, my bet is that after seeing it, you are either
blind or you are having second thoughts about this man’s so called design
chops.
As far as I can discern, this was nothing more than a huge
pile of HUBRIS! The cacophony of color
and pattern, the souk of looks, the excess, the absolute abandonment of
anything that has to do with good taste and so much more that was worse than
all of that. Here’s a little scenario
for all Lil Kim , meets Roy Lichtenstein, meets
Phyllis Diller and then they all drop acid together and design a
collection that is supposed the as spectacular as the second coming!
I am genuinely perplexed and a bit upset that anyone other
than a rank amateur would turn out a pile like this collection. I would be an ass if I didn’t say that there
are pieces buried in the pile that are stand-alone fabulous, but why on earth
would anyone conduct a full on visual assault like this. Okay, so here are some adjectives and expressions
that came to mind; overt, garish, overdone, over designed, blinding, tawdry, wasteful
extravagance, whorish, more is better, cheap looking, offensive and what she
couldn’t wear she carried.
I have never regarded Mr. Ford as a design god but I have
always thought him to be a great spin master and great at self-promotion as
well as a talented stylist but now I need to even reassess that notion. For fall 2013 this is nothing more than
another take on the “the emperor’s new clothes” but in the most over
embellished over the top and most distracting sense.
The only way you see this collection would be to see in
totally dissected manner , at least for a normal consumer but as I write , I
believe that it is conceivable that a certain part of the Russian population
will be banging the doors down to get at these clothes. Yes, I can honestly say that the over the knee
boots were works of art as were some of the INDIVIDUAL pieces but when thrown
together, this was just so aggressive and disturbing.
In a very short span of time, we have witnessed events very
similar to this; Raf at Dior, Hedi at Saint Laurent, Jil back at Jil, Galliano
at Oscar and soon Wang at Balenciaga.
These are all hotly and eagerly anticipated events that “rock” the world
of fashion but they should all thank Mr. Ford as they came across as heroes and
stars in comparison … at least no one will laugh at what they did!
Looking forward to reading
what the fawners will make of this … my take is they will use many of
the same adjectives that I have used and just say that’s why the collection is
so fabulous … meh!
P.S. I think this was kind in comparison to what I might
have written!
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