Bottega Veneta Resort 2024 Milan

[donyan]

I love this and will take it a 100 times over Daniel Lee’s vapid influencer-chasing iteration of BV. It’s almost old- fashioned in its creative approach, based on technique and new ideas and the actual design of garments as opposed to the 2-dimensional approach of so many other brands now , where everything is about the photographic image and how it’ll be read on Instagram.
Yes there might be too many ideas and yes it’s not really the most coherent look or collection, but there are so many beautiful, covetable things here.

 

[GoldenTribe]

Well god forbid I have an opinion I confirm that it is in my opinion one of the ugliest mens look I have seen in recent seasons. This terrible print that is supposed to tweak that boring jacket, the massive collar on the shirt, the rattling tie, those heinous little shorts. All paired with this plain bag and its thick handle, and those shoes in that hideous little yellow with contrasting soles that look like they're made out of plastic. Yeah, it's bad.

I only have one follow-up question: Have you heard of Rick Owens?

 

[MModa]

Love how the looks are presented.

 

[FashioNarrating]

I think they are quite different because Lee is much more confident as a commercial designer. There’s something obvious about the way he is designing and presenting his clothes…Even at BV. It was always about those knitwear pieces, that casual and practical allure that is quite well translated in his own Resort 2024 for Burberry.

Blazy is more experimental. And in a way, it seems like every outfit needs to be challenging either in techniques or styling.

The irony I think is that Blazy’s palette is more playful than Lee while Lee’s clothes are more light, playful to wear, because of their casual nature.

Lee is for sure more !tem-oriented (though I would say he is playing quite a bit with color, print and texture - the silhouettes are maybe the 'safest' part of his offerings), I am just questioning what some of the things Blazy puts in front of us are about/for.. a significant chunk of it looks somewhat overdone and formulaic in its attempt to spell out "this is premium luxury fashion", which is likely also requested from him, since during Lee's tenure Kering realised that BV can be a cash cow. Anyway, I'd find it more stimulating now if he presented something rather streamlined and focused on fewer propositions/design elements than the bazaar approach.

 

[yslforever]

Those snakes socks are nightmare materials.
The rest is horrendous, especially the heavy fabrics and the atrocious colour palette.
What is the point of technical skills and demi-couture if you have no aesthetics to serve?

 

[WAVES]

fantastic resort collection.
yes he needs a new stylist but the ideas are great.

 

[Phuel]

Very unfortunate he’s strayed from the stronger artisanal, and still sleek aesthetic of his debut and now unfortunately plunging farther into that sort of clownish, cartoonish and gimmick fashion caricature that was his predecessor’s gimmick, and claim to fame. That sort of Dr. Seuss clunkiness, with its bathrobe and towel as evening gown, and spongey pompoms as accompanying footwear. I guess the lure of clownwear is irresistible on social and sells the bags…??? He’s following in the same trajectory as Demna’s Balenciaga and Julien’s Rabanne with their fall to commercial pandering: Very distinct, controlled idiosyncratic sensibility initially— but the more cartoony, trolling and gimmicky aspect that fashion moths predictably gravitate to took over in an desperate need to appeal to the look of the moment.

There are still some nice artisanal and solid dressmaking pieces scattered about, like the tortoise-shell print sequinned dress on Sun Mizrahi; the leather-accented trench on the sad-looking Asian model; and the Donegal-tweedish camel look, with its interesting Helmut Lang-ish waist details on the Black model. The womenswear is solid enough as separates. But the menswear is just gross infantile boyswear-fetish. And the bags are quickly becoming so obnoxious.

 

[disco54]

This was the best look, the 40s demob suit but the rest is just tacky asf

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[yslforever]

This was the best look, the 40s demob suit but the rest is just tacky asf

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I miss Tomas Maier

 

[RaisinBoy]

I respect he tries something, even though he often fails.