Having followed him every season since his start it always delights me when one of his collections is especially significant. His current collection is a display of his extreme skills
and talents. This is a young man who understands fashion, not so much the
wearability or salability aspects to a great degree but the fantasy, the
spectacle and the glory of fashion. No matter the back story just look at the
freakin clothes… they are amazing… maybe even astounding. He is artist,
designer, technician, and visionary.
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This was no absurd gratuitous display of exaggeration (MJ) to
engender shock and awe but rather a presentation of his vision but in varying
degrees from the almost parody of the Bob Mackie/Carol Burnett/ Scarlett O’Hara complete with curtain rod shoulder
line to the slickest, sexiest and most incredible and meticulously rendered of creations. The leopard and the patent pieces are
unquestionably statement enough but it is with the pinstripes, leathers and
worsted gray that this young man shows his versatility and his repertoire of
endless possibilities ... to me he is one of the most, if not the most, promising and gifted of the young crop of
designers of his generation.
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He is in every sense a créateur, a designer ... the clothes
appear to be impeccably and flawlessly made.. they have an edge.. They have a chic about them
.. He is a tailor, a dressmaker and a full on craftsman.
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I was recently criticized for supposedly demeaning young
talent ...let me point out that even day one Gareth Pugh brought something incredible
to the table ... it was outrageous, it wasn’t me too and he has evolved with ups
and downs in a variety of incarnations but it was all his and it was quite
obvious to me that he was on a mission to change how we see fashion and show
the world the his powers that he possessed.
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So like it or not ... BRAVO Gareth Pugh for one more
collection that makes fashion worth being part of and for not being one of the
sheep!
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