Givenchy HC S/S 08 Paris

[AnaBGD]

Love it! It's fabulous!
And the shoes are amazing!!!

[Diorette]

Originally Posted by Inaya

I'd love to see Carine rocking the white coat

Me too.

[FogUponLA]

Originally Posted by Mr-Dale

I am not thrilled?

I mean, it all looks outstandingly wellmade and very dreamy...not to mention beautiful, but it's nothing we haven't seen before...the silhouettes aren't new, the huge frocks look familiar and the pallet is indeed the same as ever. I like this collection, but I don't love it. Where are the dramatic floorlength dresses?

couldn't agree with you more. I love Tisci but this is entirely too reminiscent of his previous work. I'm... almost disappointed.

[Street_a_Licious]

y'all's seem to love it, but to me, those embellishments look like party decorational materials gone wrong. besides, Tisci did that "ball under sheer fabric" already. it was a novelty back then, it's nothing worth writing home about now.

i generally tend to enjoy the cleaner, simpler pieces more. they leave more space to "breathe".

[Faith Akiyama]

Originally Posted by Spike413

Why is he recycling ideas so early in his career? I've seen a lot of these before.

Catherine's dress =

The red pleated dress =

The tan pleated top =


Natasha's dress =

The feathered dress

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Indeed a whole lot of recycling It is reminiscent of Dior HC as well...a lot of beautiful pieces with a great concept, but quite redundant in terms of execution. The good thing is we'll likely see very different designs from both Tisci and Galliano come next Haute Couture...

[thomaslida]

[BerlinRocks]

Originally Posted by Spike413

So far, the details on those ruff-pleated pieces are outstanding, as usual, but I feel like I've seen him do this before. The top parts are reminding me of s/s 07 in a lot of ways, but pairing them with skinny pants didn't exactly improve upon it.

And I have to say, his color choices are really beginning to bore me. They're always the same with the exception of last year's foray into canary yellow and the two or three robin's-egg blue pieces he did for fall. Other than that it's been the same palette since he started, black, white, tan, taupe, fire-engine red and gray.

i hadn't check the whole collection...
but i guess the déjà-vu impression is because maybe someone told him he had to develop this, as it was his best collection so far under Givenchy - Couture.....

but it looks good, anyway....

[mystiiik]

i like this a lot i mean A LOT more than lacroix, but not dior , even though givenchy is more wearable than dior.

[lemeray]

I like it but dont love it, some peices are very toned down, not dramatic enough, also looks like peices were half completed and as mentioned before I too see similiarities with past collections so nothing really feels new to me...

[KI_egoiste]

Whew, I'm relieved. I knew Tisci would not dissapoint. I love the monochromatic looks, love the architecture, layering, shoes, metallic pieces, I pretty much love everything. I don't think this is his strongest HC collection yet, but I do not have a problem with the recycling. Dior has been recycling in his past 3 collections, Karl, Valentino and Armani for several decades. He also happened to repeat some of his most beautiful elements in my opinion, so more power to him...

[masquerade]

Effing amazing.

This made HC week as far as I'm concerned

[MyNameIs]

It may have looked good if most of it wasn't the exact replica of his prior work.

[Jacque Marcel]

I like it, I think it's one of his better collections but like many people have pointed out, it's very been there done that. I can see the other designers rehashing because they have been in the game for a long time but Tisci is still new. He's too young to already go back in to his archives. He should be bursting with new ideas to move Givenchy Couture forward. But it's still very lovely...

[borjacapella]

if it's gonna be THIS BEAUTIFUL, i wish we saw deja-vu more often!

i certainly expected more... but i can forgive one season of digging in the archives! still number 2 on my list of couture shows (which considering chanel never moves from #1 is a lot)

[Inaya]

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