I've ALWAYS suspected that his ' design skills were negligable , as Christopher Baily is a REAL designer , you've only to look at his women's and men's collections for BURBERRY PRORSUM , SO much less self indulgent than Menichetti's work , successful as it was .
Okay, this confuses me mainly because, even though I think Bailey makes nice clothes, I'm unclear as to why everyone speaks of him like he has this amazing design capability. Nice clothes yes, but he doesn't have talent for design coming out his rear end.
From FTV one only has to look at the shy and self deprecating way in which BAILEY makes an appearance at the end of his collections , so much the opposite of Ford .
So, does that make Bailey better?
I feel that we will find with Stephano Pilati's first real collections for YSL Rive Gauche where the REAL talent lies !!!
If Ford really did depend on a design team to produce the collections, adn simply got the ideas and gave the directives, then how is it at all possible that the clothes will be any better when one of the same people who designed with Ford is designing? In that case, why criticsize Ford for the designs, why not criticsize Pilati?
Sorry if I sound quite so hardheaded, but I don't understand how people can criticsize Ford's design capabilities if he was never the person actually designing the clothes but then go and trash him for the YSL collections. If the collections were so bad, doesn't the design team play a part in that? I don't get what makes anybody think that Pilati is so much better then Ford, if they worked on the collections at YSL under Ford together, is Ford really the only one to blame if the collections are bad, and if you really think that, why?