Well here is a welcomed moment in the seemingly never ending
line up of homogenized runway shows… clothes created by a designer who brings a smile to your
face. In a sort of 21st
century version or combination of Franco Moschino, Castelbejac, Cavalli and
Sonia Rykiel, Manish Arora has certainly carved a niche for himself with a
brand of humor, clothes and technique, much the same as the others did years
earlier.
No, he doesn’t fit in to any mold and he may not exactly
follow a trend of any kind but he has a perspective and from what one can see,
part of that perspective is to have a sense of humor and enjoy what you
wear. In my opinion the clothes might
show better if they weren’t piled on print on top of pattern on top of print
but with a discerning surgical eye, there are lots of pieces that would
certainly appeal to a lot of ladies.
The collection is a riot of color and a cacophony of prints,
to say the least, and supplies plenty of attention grabbing pieces but I’m
guessing that discretion and blending in are hardly the focus here. For me, I‘ll take 5 of these collections in
comparison to all the high minded inspired collections that only produce
unwearable and ill-conceived clothes. These are impulse buys at retail but then
again it surely is not the kind of collection that blends in with all the
others or might be considered a “destination” resource.
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