Givenchy couture spring 2020

Here’s what we know about Clare Waight Keller after seeing her haute couture collection for spring 2020:

*She likes white

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*She has no clue as to what the DNA is of the actual heritage brand

*She likes to play dress-up on live models

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*She likes billowing unwearable and unflattering clothes

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*She has outdone Jacquemus in the hat department or maybe she is competing with Botticelli and his Venus

*She apparently likes to be noticed except for all the wrong reasons; she likes to drown her models in fabric

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*She is certainly not a designer’s designer

*She needs to go back to the drawing board and figure out what the brand stands for and what exactly defines haute couture as well as what her contribution will be to this art

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*She seems to feel free to borrow identities from any designer she sees fit ...sadly none of the right ones!

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Givenchy spring 2020

Thank god Monsieur Givenchy is dead!

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If Tisci didn’t kill him this certainly would have.

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Clare Waight Keller must be trained in creating ungainly ugly clothes that are am embarrassment to the brand and eponymous founder.

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No words needed ... look at the photos be horrified hat his brand was once equated to chic, elegance sophistication and Audrey Hepburn.

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Just another case of brand assassination!epburn

Givenchy fall 2019

Or should I say what used to be Givenchy! 

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I can’t blame it on the current designer, Clare whatever,  as Tisci did a very good job of decimating the reputation of the brand for glamor, chic and style but what I can blame on its present designer is a collection of pedestrian,bland and common looking clothes that do not  even begin to restore the luster of the brand.

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Let’s start with the shoes that looked like the models had club feet and a selection of generic suits with this sort of butterfly or pancake shoulder and then we move on to an endless array of mushroom pleated variation which serve no particular purpose and lastly to supposedly evening clothes, both long and short with a crinolined capelet, that seemed at best clumsy.

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One more Conan the Destroyer has arrived chez Givenchy with clothes from the communal design rooms of Paris. Sure looked like a whole lot of BTDT (been there done that, ask Mary McFadden) or again just clothes with no particular point of view … I’m sure they’ll be breaking down the doors to buy clothes that will grow old hanging on the  rails and not in closets!

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PS ... how many times can you show the same belted blazer and why?