Haute Couture conjures many things in the minds of those who
follow fashion; one of the things it doesn’t create is the feeling that you
will experience an end result that presents itself as cheap and trashy! Oops,
did I really say that? Dontallamammamia is at it again. She truly has a magic
touch; she can turn hours and days of hard painstaking labor from the most
talented of ateliers and render clothes that would suit any drag ball or hooker
convention on an international basis. Swagged, draped, beaded, embroidered, cut
out, cut up, bright, shiny, and otherworldly are just some of the adjectives
that come to mind.
Restraint is not word in the vocabulary of the designer and
it is a word she really really needs to learn as surely this is a case that
supports the adage that more is not always better. Even the dearly departed
Gianni knew the power of restraint and used it to his advantage but not
Dontallamammamia!! She just piles it on until hell won’t have it and then adds
more. We might say the clothes are theatrical or costumey but then that again that
would be a great complement for her labors. The cowled hood is amusing once but
after the 10th time attached to every piece... not so much! Is it
possible that these clothes will play to the house parties of the Middle East
where the women dress up in their finery behind closed doors or it is possible
these clothes are for the newly rich oligarch’s mistress who will seduce her
prey in one of these frocks. The mind does wander after seeing a collection
like this. Even the tailored pieces seem to fall short of any kind words!
On a “positive” note, if there is one, the clothes were far
more Balmain than they were Alaia (signora’s reference) and each piece is
truly multiple feats of construction and embellishment but
that is more the outcome of the ateliers than her hand. There is ONE effect
that I found to be quite beautiful and that is the all over beading that was
used throughout which gets quite lost amongst all the “stuff” that’s going on .
The beading which I call pin dot beading might be compared with “goose bumps’
of a sort ...but the more evenly spaced
and orderly type.
Bottom line is very simple; it will cost an awful lot of
money to look this cheap and tawdry as Dolly Parton might have said!!!
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