I don’t see myself
as a fashion intellect nor do I pretend to like what I don’t understand but in
the case of Lutz kept looking and I kept finding my way to understand what he
does and see the consistency and DNA of his brand.
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Lutz has
evolved since I first began paying attention and each season he has progressively
moved forward. I knew that his appointment at Delpozo would invade his creative
process and so I paid even more attention to each presentation.
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Now it is clearer
to me that Lutz is a designer who has massaged his brand’s DNA and at lack of a
better phrase… grown up. By that I mean to say it’s no longer about denim
jackets and olive nylon flight jackets, this is now a collection that speaks to
the roots of Lutz Huelle just in a more refined and matured way than when he started. The
fuchsia, the sparkle, the more fastidious tailoring have now come to the front.
His dresses remain easy to wear and have a sort of trendoid feeling without
being freakish. There was special attention paid to shoulders and sleeves in
this collection which I see as a sort of experimentation for the future.
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His use of
color has opened a new aspect for his work as has his variety of fabrications
and most certainly in the way he has reinterpreted himself. There was a stellar
raincoat, a perfect white shirt dress, his signature denims and constructions but now mixed with
other fabrications and colors, the shapes are less seemingly complicated and the mood has
decidedly shifted away from being so overtly trendy to a more subtle presentation
of his design ideology.
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In other words
he didn’t throw away his original clients, he shifted then to see Lutz in a new
light and it’s a most flattering one. While so many of his colleagues have
opted to shock and awe, Lutz just smoothed out the edges and brought us fashion
as seen through his eyes.
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Kudos! Yes! Now
I am a Lutz man!
