Michael Kors Collection resort 2020

I guess when you’re  now considered a conglomerate, and your numbers are down because the headline collection stinks, a designer, or in this  case THE designer, has to return to some sort of reality and design clothes that someone might wear or want especially if your backup is Donatellamamamia.

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Such is the conundrum that faced Michael Kors except that this collection, while much improved, is far more French inspired than all American. It was the attack of the ruffle, the flood of dots, a little overkill of black and white and on yes... tailoring and shoulders; take note of the repetition of design just redone in other fabrications.

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Without question, there are a few winning pieces, which happen to be the simplest, but I am not sure the ladies are quite ready to be so buttoned up, so done… well so 80s. I mean  stiff ruffles and peplums are a tough combo in any times except when they are the rage but Kors has lost the edge of being a fashion trend maker as well as being representative of the so call all American client.

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Aside from all that, resort?? For his information, the ladies of Palm Beach have worn black for the past4 decades that I can recall and certainly the last 3 when I was ensconced “during season” in the mid-80s.

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Well, these certainly are not bound to be the status signifier of the MTA handbag of the year but my question is … who and where are these clothes being worn?

GIVENCHY RESORT 2020

With all the big hopes and hoopla that surrounded this latest incarnation, Clare Waight Keller has  delivered a collection that reaches a new benchmark for the heritage brand…………… mediocre!

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Well maybe I should say yawn worthy! These are clothes for people who need a label to feel secure as they’re just clothes for the sake of clothes and in in the majority they are boring and pointless. So I guess this is one more to add to the pile of the emperor’s new clothes. If anything, the collection looks like contemporary sportswear and save 3 or 4 gowns this is H&M ready.

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WTF are these people thinking? There’s no guts, no fashion, no style, no chic, no elegance... just clothes… clothes that can bear any label by any design student or wannabe designer. Welcome to the demise of fashion as we once knew it! It’s almost like the fashion demolition derby!!

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 PS… nothing says resort like shearling and fur!

Oscar de la Renta resort 2020

After viewing this collection , for some reason, I became very  nostalgic;  times when  collections were not so much themed  but told a color  story or a fabric story or a pattern  story and then of  course you  could always rely on a nautical theme and in Oscar’s case his use of broderie anglaisefor resort. 

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What I find fascinating about Laura Kim and Fernando Garcia is that somehow they have retained the essence of Oscar… maybe not the look but the feel of the clothes.  They have a chic, they have a polish but I just can’t ever get past that calf length that I find so unattractive on anyone and almost offensive to my eye. Even though I miss those cha cha/rumba dresses, the body fitted torsos, the polka dots, the ruffles and the slickness that were all so Oscar, this new incarnation serves his name well. They do him justice, they give him his props.

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I categorically cannot say the collection is flawless but it is damn good especially when holding it up against the competition on an international stage. Yes, there were a few too many goddess gowns and yes the chain thing may have been a tad over done as well was a certain stiffness in some pieces but there is enough to see and appreciate and for the client to love. 

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GUCCI RESORT 2020

And here you have just what money can buy!! It can buy you a show at the Met! It can buy you a book and it can buy you Halloween costumes for a lifetime. This is the gold standard for emperor’s new clothes!

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“I feel the need for freedom, at times I feel like I’m suffocating, and I need to launch messages through fashion.”  This is just Mental masturbation by a designer who has the temerity to say it aloud. In which of any of his collections has he even shown a hint of restraint or being stifled.. he has had free reign since day one!

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Message received... you don’t have a clue what the  fuck you’re doing and as for freedom you have had more than your fair share to create the consecutive abominations that you have turned out season after season. The cash might be rolling in but history will call you a fashion freak who used hype and shock to build a reputation with over the top overloaded, poorly designed and ill-conceived clothes so I’m not sure what he is suffocating in except his  own bullshit.

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He is yet one more who thinks he is among the intelligensia of fashion and then you look at this pile and say WTF was he thinking and yes this resort … on MARS!

You wanna love it... go right ahead….Gucci and Kering have proven that money talks because on their own merit these clothes are garbage.

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Rant over!

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PS where is Rollerina?? She would have been dressed for several lifetimes from this collection… just add wand and skates!