This is more
editorial/commentary than review but this needs to be recognized for so many reasons which
only those who truly grasp fashion will understand and that is THIS IS IN
PRAISE OF DESIGN! Designers who design without the pressures of conglomerates
and empires backing them looking for the next big cash in ... They are the
independents in every sense of the word.
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Both men
have been designing for decades and both have, if nothing else, given birth to
a cult like following that waits every season to add to their collection of
each designer. This is not about trend, what’s in, what’s out and it certainly
isn’t about designing for the moment. These cohesive collections are products of evolutionary brands
that have been retained their integrity, their DNA, their vocabulary and their
point of view since the start.
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Unquestionably,
each of the collections is an acquired taste and yet season after season they
can be referred to as “designers’ designers”... They are committed to their
spirit and point of view. These are not collections that morph to the moment
but instead interpret and massage each brand’s ”voice” when it comes to the
business of fashion.
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Sometimes it
is not about what I think so much as how I see a designer’s oeuvre as a whole.
I tip my hat to these men for staying the course of time and having a developed
a core of retailers and clients who think they walk on water. KUDOS to these
and others who have not forsaken their ethics to resort to the lowest form of fashion
which these days is slapping a logo on something and thinking that’s fashion!
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