One has no choice but to accept when musical chairs is played within the world of fashion but that doesn’t mean that the latest iteration of a collection will reflect what the brand was built upon or where it left off in the hands of the last designer.
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Tomas Maier for all that he was or wasn’t gave Bottega Veneta panache, slick fashion, minimalism, an urbane edge and at times some arty craftsy looks which one either liked or didn’t. My point here is quite simply that Maier’s successor, Daniel Lee, demands us to mourn the loss of Maier who put Bottega back on the fashion map and created something that really never existed before him. The clothes now are generic to say the least and worse that that they are tired and unoriginal and not befitting a brand’s stature. They are more mass looking than their prices will command.Daniel Lee has
certainly taken the brand down a few notches in more ways than one.
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He, in his fervor to put his mark on the brand, has demonstrated his lack of knowledge as to how and what made this brand a prestige brand as well as what its vocabulary is all about. It is not just about leather but about how the leather was treated and how it was worked and manipulated and not just used as a substitute for woven fabric, let alone that the target audience is not 25.
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