Saint Laurent fall 2019

There is something to be said about consistency ... that something might be a compliment or holding fast, or utilizing signatures or boring! 

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The big news, if you can call it that, is shoulders… squared off heavily padded shoulders. .. The kind that make Kaia Gerber’s head look like a pinhead or you need to turn sideways to enter through a doorway! Anthony Vaccarello has beaten “le smoking” to death, his “flying Buttress” dresses have now been copied by everyone, sheer tops are in every collection and so in keeping with his crotch grazing lengths he added bloomers and boxer shorts to the mix as well as heavily feather banded animal print skirts and some tiered ruffle pieces ... yawning. Hidden among all the hoopla was a most exquisite lace bow front dress that had no companions and that’s too sad along with a few other one offs that we re just there. There were 2 dresses that looked decidedly more Thierry Mugler than SL and again that’s too sad.

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So after the Betty Catroux memes and all the available color ways of an outfit, the extravaganza of the Saint Laurent show could have easily been cut in half especially if you exclude the black light segment which is designed to entertain rather than show clothes and therein lies the problem …. The cool factor … not!

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Show the freakin clothes!

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Galliano and Lagerfeld were geniuses at the theater of fashion because they gave you entertainment and fashion meaning there was spectacle and the clothes were integral to the visual. Here it’s shock and awe and media grabbing time…. Who cares? You want a circus you go to circus.