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Originally Posted by agee
^^ I think that he is onto something and that is to up his profile to sell more cosmetics and fragrance. I don't think that Tom Ford is a serious designer of women's clothing at this time. That is totally fine with me, and it in fact intrigues me, but I am going to sneer at his pretentious ramblings about exclusivity and not wanting to subject these collections to the churn factor that other collections undergo, and I am also going to criticize Tom Ford's collections as I would several collections of clothes that I have opined on.
Yeah two seasons ago...
But it is not like the designers noted are tFS faves - Pilati is seen as boring, Valli is seen as some guy who makes pretty clothes and Giannini has not come out from Tom Ford's shadow. Also it should be noted that Tom Ford returned to womenswear was a heralded event and he garnered a ton of goodwill and hype, heck some believe that Carine Roitfeld lost her job over it, and IMO the goodwill dissipated because the collections have not matched the hype, or even in general been anything all that special for a seasoned and respected womenswear designer.
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your comment illustrates the inanity of the current fashion system. yves saint laurent placed a white pant suit on its runway for spring/summer 2012. giambattista valli played with the textures i mentioned in his spring/summer 2012 collection. gucci sent out a series of gilded jackets on its runway for spring/summer 2012. it may
feel like two seasons ago because we have lived with those looks for months now and have seen them on select celebrities already, but that's the problem with the whole thing.
do we suggest that every single womenswear designer with exception of the haiders and anns and theyskens of the bunch "[aren't] serious designer[s] of women's clothing
at this time?" i can agree that OVERALL we haven't seen the strongest season in the ready-to-wear, but to isolate tom ford remains a bit myopic in my view. the clothes fall wholly in line with everything going on in womenswear at the moment. they just haven't been over-saturated.