Wednesday, February 14, 2018

Rosie Assoulin FALL 2018



What fresh hell is this ... Every season this young woman produces a collection of clothes… just clothes … clothes for the sake of clothes.. sadly she is one of the few who has a sometimes signature which one might equate to scrawling or scribble. 
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Heavy handed over worked over thought, purposeless and unattractive clothes. Each season resembles a class’s design competition that may yield a few pieces which potential for wearable and most that look like experimentation in fabrication.
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From Foxy Brown to a bad imitation of a Carolina Herrera signature look,  to an even worse memory of a designer Ana Colon who worked exclusively with mushroom pleating in the 80s whio in comparison and retrospect might have been the next coming of Madame Grès. I might add Ms. Assoulin does not quite understand the inherent limitations of pleating. The collection covers everything from a sort of Norell-ish take on feathered tunic paired with what i like to call the Chewbacca pant to patchwork quilts to tin foil couture to pimp suits and my favorite… a one shouldered upper body cast but what could be missing other than an all sequined 3 armed one shoulder waist tied shirt with a big pussycat bow paired with elephant bell bottoms in the stiffest of cotton.
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Whatever this is , this is not fashion …this is much more like whatever sticks to the wall !... Got it?

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