Tuesday, September 26, 2017

Saint Laurent PFW spring 2018



Apparently this collection was a joint effort with Alexander Wang, Alexandre Vauthier, Donatella, Olivier Rousteing, Rei Kawakubo and god knows who else. In a case when two of the most famous and once vaunted fashion brands show on the same day, we are left to shake our heads and tsk tsk tsk at what we have seen before our very eyes. 
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No need to rehash the shame of Dior but now we have another pretender to a throne who seems to be as deluded as that Italian at Dior. How shameful to turn a brand like this into some freak show of fashion with hair grazing length skirts, enough feather to start an ostrich farm and odd cargo shorts shown in almost every passage. Alas but the models wore hose!
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Trash and vaudeville come to mind and worst of all will be the oohing and cooing media who will recite from the press release the delusional inspirations and ramblings of this designer who will undoubtedly speak of the eponymous designer .. In a blasphemy of sorts since little to none of what is seen is anything that Monsieur St Laurent might have shown even in his declining years. In many ways this show stretches the meaning of distasteful and might really considered an affront to the world of fashion, the brand and a total visual assault that you will unfortunate not be able to unsee. One could even say some of this was literally rags!
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One more dissolution and watering down of a heritage brand that now offers clothes that 2 bit hookers and teeny boppers can’t afford but would love … the fantasy, aspiration and dream of fashion has disappeared in the quest for the almighty dollar.. Which in this case is anything but clothes … oh but the boots... as if!

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