Starting with Spring 2014, there will be a series of mini
reviews which basically will say the most but in the least amount of words as
well as half the amount of slides. The
terse appraisals will not take the place of my more formal and thorough
reviews; they will enable to me to publish more for your perusal. Somehow my feeling is that the reader will
not need to know any more than what I have offered.
For me, this is just another case of “The Emperor’s New
Clothes” or Much Ado About Nothing.” I hope Kering is very happy with their purchase
as he is one more who will now become the board of directors bitch and will be
answering to a raft of CPA’s rather than his clients.
First instinct is that the clothes reminded of Orthodox Jews
and with their tzizit and tallit (see slide show). The collection is gimmicky and
rabbinical in the extreme and once that is stripped away there isn’t much. It is rather yawn worthy at that point. What does stand out is that the young man
knows how to tailor a jacket. I think
there is great talent there but it just hasn’t been channeled in one specific
direction. Each season there are
different bells and whistles and each season there is some new convoluted
message.
Is it too much to ask for a collection that bears a
distinction in belonging to a specific designer and not a collection that can
be attributed to anyone … in essence, where is the DNA of this brand and soon
it will be just that.. a brand
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