I really dislike this generation of designers - the tasteful, Instagram curator gays.
While I get your feelings, I have to say that I like Blazy and Daniel Lee and I’ve came to like JWA at some point but they are the products of their environment.
What was pushed as the forefront of good fashion during the years of formation of those designers was the CDG, the Margiela, the RAF Simons, Yohji, Veronique Branquillo, Jil Sander, Helmut Lang, PRADA etc and etc…
Those were the brands and designers that had the cachet in order to legitimize a taste in fashion, or rather a good taste.
I think those designers were over-intellectualized by the press and when Cathy Horyn or Tim Blanks are part of your fashion education, you might be willing to fall for that once you become a designer.
I think design was intuitive for the generation before. I think when you look at Tom Ford, Hedi Slimane, Nicolas Ghesquiere and even Lee McQueen, it was very intuitive, about the cut, the silhouette rather than a mood even if they created the template for what fashion has become.
Designers who designs with intuition has tend to become « sexy designers ». When you go to La Cambre, you don’t want to work for Roberto Cavalli…
I’m sure Anthony Vaccarello didn’t fit in his taste with the aesthetic around.
And somehow maybe a TFS reader would turn out to be a « Tasteful-IG curator gay » designer.
What is interesting to me is that their voices is fairly new or fresh but more than that, they are technically skilled. There’s potential, there’s a hope for something more organic. And it’s weird because while I don’t like his work, I respect Olivier Rousteing because he has that organic, « total expression of creativity » side to his work.