NO NAMES THOUGH IT WON'T BE HARD TO GUESS SPRING 2022

#1-you should know these are all from the same season

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#2-you should be appalled and possibly insulted by what you’re looking at!

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#3this is the next generation of designers!

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#4-where do you draw the line between the absurd, the ridiculous and the untalented?

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#5-it’s difficult to unsee THESE atrocities and affronts to fashion, past and present, once you’ve seen them!

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Patou & Courrèges fall 2021

Well, I decided to write about 2 heritage brands that certainly have checkered pasts as well as founders who tipped the fashion scale of their respective eras ...one of them more than once.

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Today we are faced with the disgrace of design that was shown at Patou with clownish ridiculous and patently absurd pieces that look like rejected design school projects gone wrong not to mention so tone deaf to our times! I don’t even want to know who designed it or who would take credit for designing it!

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On the other hand, we have the freshman outing of Nicolas Di Felice who demonstrated that he understands and respects this brand’s DNA and what made it a such a revelation at its birth. It is pared down, modern, simple, razor sharp and yet nothing to shout about by today’s standards but it is slick and almost geometric, for the most part, and speaks to the eponymous founder. Di Felice saw beyond the patent  vinyl jacket!!!

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I hate harping on this but at least these are clothes than can be worn, albeit you do need a great body for most but that was the also the case when Andre Courrèges founded his Maison. At this particular juncture in time, it was the right thing to do, simple and understandable and yes, a few mistakes but at least this designer took heed of what the brand stands for.

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As for Patou, its last great moment appeared in the 80’s with the “pouf” and Christian Lacroix but look at it now... its beyond tone deaf, beyond clownish and sadly rather disgraceful to the founder, brand, current designer whose name I don’t even want o know and to Kering who really only wants to sell another bottle of JOY!

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Brand Assassination

Courrèges, Nina Ricci, Sonia Rykiel, Paco Rabanne, Mugler, Emanuel Ungaro & Kenzo

 

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The names above are some of the greatest heritage brands to ever come out of Paris and yet look at the atrocities here and see if you can possibly match any of this garbage to any of these once majestic and revered brands. 

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The impetus for this piece is the “murderer” at Courrèges and then the others are just accomplices to the crimes. Do you blame the designer or do you blame the ownership?

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What's the point in perpetuating a brand that has a long and groundbreaking history and throwing it all out the window to produce generically ugly and absurd looking clothes that probably will never sell .... seems rather pointless

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Courrèges was probably the first to ever discover and espouse minimalism, Kenzo once known for his technicolor florals and happy clothes, Rabanne for his groundbreaking use of metal, Ungaro for creating clothes screamed sex, Mugler was one of the architects of fashion and the extreme, Ricci for its jolie madame/soigné and elegance and Sonia for her irreplaceable knits… can you match any of those names to any of these images? 

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It is a crime against fashion and fashion media that any of this crap is acceptable under these labels. Critics talk around the clothes since there are no clothes to speak about that anyone will want.  

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The French who are so full of their so called pride in product should be ashamed of themselves and as for the coverage that these collections that they receive... well the  least these eponymous designers deserve is the honesty that the collection that now bears their name is to be called out for what they are …. Tasteless generic crap!