Alexander McQueen F/W 12.13 Paris

[KKnardi]

how can this ever be relevant today?

 

[maxlinden]

WOW....did I misjudge her.

 

[lelaid]

wow. what a huge miss. doesn't she have anyone on her team that is there to say "maybe we shouldn't do an entire collection based on cousin it?"

 

[Prairie]

When you look at the tumbnails almost everything looks pretty, then you click on them — and things are getting worse.

 

[Wolkfolk]

This is a BIG joke.
There's nothing dreamy or desirable here. I find this whole collection and how fashion people praise it very dishonest, pretentious and untasteful. It's quite surprising to see how Sarah who's always been so close to Alexander's easthetic, without mocking it, delivers this abomination which looks like a caricature of Avant-Gardism and everything that Mcqueen stands for.
It's also interesting to see that when she finally steps out of the comfort zone she's been presenting since she took over well there's nothing left. No real direction or execution. Everything looks very amateurish as if she had the idea but there wasn't any driving force so it just burst into this huge fluffy mess.
That's it !! A giant mess. When I look at the collection that's what I see. 2 or 3 silhouettes repeated over and over with some extravagant fabric. And seriously if you can't produce some seriously interesting headpieces just don't; instead of presenting those laughable mask just for the sake of it because they make the thing even more ridiculous IMO.

I hate to be so radical but this is the biggest disapointment of the season. She even beats Marc Jacobs and his Jamiroquai hats.

 

[Selfportraitgrl]

You know, some of these dresses are really quite lovely. But what happens when you put them all together is a hot mess. Not to mention, a collection that starts out kind of okay gets really scary halfway through.

I also just can't fathom why so many looks are SO SIMILAR to one another.... it really baffles me that anyone would think that was really a good idea!

Lastly (but certainly not least), this is not even remotely what I expect to see from McQueen. To call this McQueen is really more offensive than anything.

 

[|PerfectTonight|]

Horrible and it hurts me to say this!

 

[Deleted member 130879]

I really like the 4th one and I can see McQueen there. Unfortunately, only there.

And if it wasn't for the damn fur or feathers or whatever that is, the three red dresses would be quite nice!

 

[navono]

I honestly wish she looked back (hell.she was there!), and realized the dynamic and theatrical elements of McQueen. She is nowhere near as cultured as McQueen or diverse. She had it right up until this collection. This is fairly odd .
I would never think that from her debut collection this would be soon after it. I liked it until the black looks and the final looks are not bad at all. This just isn't screaming McQueen.
Hopefully this collection gets horrible reviews and Sarah gets mad as **** and pull a What a Merry-Go-Round Fall 2001 moment.
I am rather sad actually. I wait every season to see this show, it is just such a let down when I can't look to McQueen or Dior/Galliano to be amazed anymore.

 

[Zann]

Now that I've seen the HQ's. It's just.... so sad that she did this collection coming right off the McQ collection!

I agree that I hope they rip her to shreds in reviews and she really changes where she is taking this house. I am a huge huge huge fan of her and I just want her to succeed. Tough love baby!

btw. The last picture in post #78 reminds me of McQueen Fall 2009. I wish she went that direction. Or if she was going futuristic.. at least show the fierce tailoring!... like where are the pants?

 

[Vladita]

She got pressured with Mcqueen's legacy and I think, based on this collection, she didn't handle it well. Just too much fur and feathers..

 

[skadih]

there is no god

 

[IsabelMarantBoy]

Review from WWD, seems like they didn't like it much either

Futurism — a theme core to the Alexander McQueen aesthetic over the years. Toward the end of his life, the house founder worked the topic to a dark conclusion: man’s abuse of his environment would lead ultimately to a (highly romanticized) reversal of the evolutionary process. In a bold statement of stewardship of the house, for fall Sarah Burton tackled the same theme and arrived at a very different place. “It’s futurism with softness, not cold futurism,” she said in a preview. In her view, man and nature are not at odds. “It’s looking forward in a completely positive way.”

Burton expressed her viewpoint in a collection all about lightness with a core of power — and the emotion that makes McQueen McQueen. Her futuristic princesses may wear “exploded” silhouettes in pristine white jacquards or enormous froths of pink feathers, but they hide behind wide, sleek visors through which they both see and are shielded from the world.

Story-telling? Most definitely. But fashion needs stories and wonder and provocation, just as, ultimately, fashion brands need something to sell. The latter was nowhere in sight on Burton’s runway. But anyone doubting her affinity for the essential declination from fantastical show pieces to the stuff of ultrachic viability — in case the Kate Middleton sightings aren’t enough — should visit the showroom. There, in shades of soft pinks and grays along with black, a knockout commercial collection connected back with savvy elegance, while indeed pointing to a positive future ahead.

This was just vile, I liked last season a lot but this just bad. Nothing pretty or new looking here, and all the silhouettes are really awkward.

 

[Littleathquakes]

I've thought Sarah as an example of how a fashion label can still continue without its eponymous designer, and for every single collection since the real McQueen's death I've held on to that opinion of her. But this ...this is the proverbial jumping the shark.

 

[Laris]

that is so unfortunate. i was never a big fan of the sarah collections but i was ok with it, this is just sad. i also feel like the same dress gets repeated a hundred times with barely any variations in them...

 

[neonsprinkles]

I really can't find the words to describe how I feel about this collection......all I know is that it's very disheartening to see it go in this direction.

 

[Crying Diamonds]

She got pressured with Mcqueen's legacy and I think, based on this collection, she didn't handle it well. Just too much fur and feathers..

She got so pressured by his legacy that she designed a collection that insulted it? It seems as if I am stating the obvious, but this is the worst collection I have ever seen from Alexander McQueen.
Someone needs to tell Sarah Burton that adding more and more and more and more is not going to result in originality, beauty or edginess and that she is not going to be able to hide behind that disgusting tiered tulle and convince people that her designs for the brand come anywhere close to parring with McQueen's.

 

[KhaoticKharma]

This looks like Dior...

 

[Deleted member 7575]

Big clothes with no skill and finesse. A misstep for sure for Burton.

 

[Pradable]