Okay here’s a concept for the
great minds of fashion to ponder … a collection that is minimal, sexy, chic and
doesn’t look like Jil Sander as it seems she is the sine qua non of what is
minimal and what all others copy to achieve the minimalist Nirvana they aspire
to!
No need to think any longer
---EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEH TIME”S UP!
Bill Gaytten has achieved
something that most are incapable and most don’t even have a clue on how to approach
or wrap their precious little heads around an original idea. I fell in love with Mr. Gaytten when he had a
brief moment as head designer at Dior after the hasty departure of John
Galliano. The 2 worked side by side at
Dior as well as at the eponymous JG collection but it is in the absence of Mr.
Galliano that Mr. Gaytten has flourished and earned a personal great respect of
mine.
This fall collection proves what
I have always said... and will continue to say … DESIGNERS DESIGN! And one
needn’t look any further than right here with this collection.
Do I think this is the greatest
collection since sliced bread… no...? Do I think everyone will agree with me...
no, but I want to make it clear that collections like this are achievements and
testaments to talent. I am not a dyed in
the wool fan of neither John Galliano nor his term at Dior and I was never a
fan of the eponymous collection BUT I am a fan of Mr. Gaytten and his esthetic
and obviously his great talents that he bestows on us as being part of the
world of fashion…. Gotta backtrack a second to say that I was always a fan of
the extreme talent that Galliano had for creating the theater of fashion and
for the seemingly impossible feats that he achieved while designing at
Dior. So, I am absolutely not
diminishing or poo pooing the talents of John Galliano.
Back to business here, the
collection is one of sheer simplicity without looking like 2 slabs of fabric
sewn together that conjure awe and
reverence; this is the unimaginable concept of being simply sexy, simply lean,
designed with the greatest of attention to detail and not meant to appeal to
everyone. It is also a collection that
doesn’t trend along with every other designer out there and yet as much as I
carry on about Mr. Gaytten, he has taken the DNA of the brand and morphed it
into a new and more languid result. And
Oh yeah! Minimal and not necessarily
hard edged!
I am duly impressed and I
absolutely tip my hat to you...Monsieur Gaytten!
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