I guess I will be forever saying the same thing about this
man and his collections… he manages to use his vocabulary over and over again every season and somehow no matter
how he manipulates the pieces of the puzzle and reassembles them, they look
great! Long thought but you get the
gist!
In the midst of a huge Nor’easter, Ralph Lauren showed an
apt collection of warm weather gear, French school girls and urbane chic. Cowboys,
Indians, beret, puff jackets, collegiates, satins, beads, frou frou, fur and
chic city girls all met on the runway. The most amazing part of it is simply
that it all makes sense and it all represents the DNA of this legendary brand
in all its many incarnations.
Its mind boggling that the new cult of designers feels the
need to change their look every season and spew all this nonsense about their
far flung arcane inspirations when all one has to do is deliver consistently
beautiful collections that reflect your particular notion of fashion. It just
so happens that Ralph understands this and is amongst the very few who does. It
is so refreshing to be able to look at clothes and not care or even think about
the raison d’etre other than these are the clothes that will sell to those who
love clothes. No instruction manual or romance card required! Imagine..
consistency!
PLEASE do not take my sentiments the wrong way, these are
not groundbreaking clothes but they are the clothes that defy the popular modus
operandi. No one that I know of can make menopausal mauve look so thrilling and
turn pale pink into the lushest color. For me, this takes talent and it is he
and his teams who consistently deliver looks that weaken the knees of the
fashionable and the tasteful and amaze those of us who think we have seen it
all.
Those of us who are blessed with sight cannot dispute that
these clothes are modern in ways that the neophytes cannot even begin to
conceive of and probably will never understand. Thanks Ralph for reminding us
that there is great fashion here in New York City and so much of it still comes
from those built it to its iconic stature in the world of fashion.
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