Bruno Pieters F/W 07/08 Paris

[runner]

all images from kararoku.com


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[savanna84]

I think it's a bit stiff....now really my cup of tea

haha, i mean noT really my cup of tea

 

[kahlilg]

I really like the pics you posted runner. I understood the line better after looking at those.

 

[MulletProof]

@Maayan would you happen to have bigger pictures of this collection? .. most of what was posted here has expired and I came across a picture I posted many years ago (below) and remembered how good this was and would love to see it again.


[aufeminin]

 

[Maayan]

@Maayan would you happen to have bigger pictures of this collection? .. most of what was posted here has expired and I came across a picture I posted many years ago (below) and remembered how good this was and would love to see it again.

@MulletProof, you're in luck, because I do (I think I have about 120 images of this collection). This is the look you've posted above from my archives:

I'll try my best to upload the rest later today if that's okay with you.

 

[MulletProof]

^ stop! .. you're the best! thank you thank you!!! and yes, zero rush, just coming to the realisation that I've never really seen this in HQs!

 

[tricotineacetat]

Looking back on Bruno Pieters' work, I am left headscratching over his overcomplicated designs at the time - A few too many rows of tiny buttons here, or decorative seams there that would often not provide a functional solution for his garments. That being said, his voice in the Belgian fashion landscape is dearly missed as his point of view was decidedly different and I would have loved to see his evolution as a designer, as he was still fairly young at the time he designed this collection.

 

[Maayan]

Keeping my promise! Here's the rest of this collection for you, @MulletProof. Enjoy!

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[Maayan]

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[Maayan]

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[Maayan]

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[donyan]

I checked out all his collections on Vogue Runway , some beautiful work but often just a tiny bit too complicated . I’m not sure who the client for this was, especially the last all-nude jersey and chiffon one

 

[MulletProof]

A few too many rows of tiny buttons here, or decorative seams there that would often not provide a functional solution for his garments.

Probably one of the reasons why I fell in love with his work early on, he was a romantic, not the kind of designer who was strictly functional. I think he simplified it a lot when he started to show in Paris and made it more commercial, I suppose (same sad trajectory as Anne Valerie Hash). From a distance most pieces looked practical so I guess the details looked unnecessary but I remember the lookbooks and small presentations from the Belgian days, and it was the only way around, the rich textures and embellishment were central in these collections, definitely not functionality.

I'm so sad that one of his early shows, of a model with a chair, has vanished from the internet and apparently from my files too, but this is probably also works as an example of his work pre-Paris:







[photographed by Bruno Pieters]

 

[MulletProof]

@Maayan thank you!! what a difference larger pictures make. I never realised this was (one gorgeous! ) dress and not a top and a skirt.

It's actually the simpler stuff (like this, plus the parts with color) what really did not survive the test of time. He was probably trying to survive (I might be wrong but isn't this one of his last collections?) but the parts where he was true to his origins (e.g this coat).. it just showed what a talent he was and probably still is.

 

[jeanclaude]

What happened to this guy? His work was interesting...where is he now?

 

[MulletProof]

^ I think tricotineacetat or @runner may have more details but looking back, he was one of the many designers of his generation impacted by the recession in the late 00s and juggling the dilemma of watering down their work a lot and borrowing whatever's popular for the sake of survival (you see traces of Raf's success at Jil Sander in this collection for example), or keeping it confined to a small sector who may or may not have had the resources to translate their excitement into actual consumption. I guess going corporate must've always been looming over his business and he eventually did join Hugo Boss. I can't recall a single collection he did there, it was that memorable , but he quit after 2 years and spent another two years traveling around India and Australia. He returned around 2012 with Honest By (a company with a whole dogma on sustainability). I don't think that's active anymore, wonder if it was one of the many businesses that went down the covid vortex..

Personally, I think his work was never stronger than when it was being published in the now defunct CFA site. I guess moving to Paris must've sounded logical but things kind of went downhill from there (just like they did for Anne Valerie, Hartmann Nordenholz, even for Sharon Wauchob for years), and I can't imagine a label of this kind (as in the one before Paris) taking off now that everyone's like a zombie and programmed only to respond to LVMH and Kering.

the only other way around
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this is probably also works

 

[jeanclaude]

^ I think tricotineacetat or @runner may have more details but looking back, he was one of the many designers of his generation impacted by the recession in the late 00s and juggling the dilemma of watering down their work a lot and borrowing whatever's popular for the sake of survival (you see traces of Raf's success at Jil Sander in this collection for example), or keeping it confined to a small sector who may or may not have had the resources to translate their excitement into actual consumption. I guess going corporate must've always been looming over his business and he eventually did join Hugo Boss. I can't recall a single collection he did there, it was that memorable , but he quit after 2 years and spent another two years traveling around India and Australia. He returned around 2012 with Honest By (a company with a whole dogma on sustainability). I don't think that's active anymore, wonder if it was one of the many businesses that went down the covid vortex..

Personally, I think his work was never stronger than when it was being published in the now defunct CFA site. I guess moving to Paris must've sounded logical but things kind of went downhill from there (just like they did for Anne Valerie, Hartmann Nordenholz, even for Sharon Wauchob for years), and I can't imagine a label of this kind (as in the one before Paris) taking off now that everyone's like a zombie and programmed only to respond to LVMH and Kering.

This is so sad, this guy had talent...I remember around 2007 everyone was talking about him. Then he just disappeared.
That pleated skirt and draped top you posted are exquisite. The kind of look that nowadays is not possible to see anymore...but hey, we have logo hoodies!


source: Mulletproof HD.

 

[Maayan]

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[photographed by Bruno Pieters]

I've seen these pleated skirts in his FW 2003 collection:

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[MulletProof]

@jeanclaude that particular picture was for Vogue Nippon and I can't seem to find anything online. Same for Spring 2004, which was my favorite.. so frustrating.. you always think that whatever is on the internet, will forever stay on the internet (there's even a whole bureaucratic/legal circus if you want to be erased from the internet lol) but independent designers' legacy? nuh uh... I can't even access any of the sites from back then, or the photo-hosting sites where this could be.

That grey skirt!

 

[donyan]

@jeanclaude that particular picture was for Vogue Nippon and I can't seem to find anything online. Same for Spring 2004, which was my favorite.. so frustrating.. you always think that whatever is on the internet, will forever stay on the internet (there's even a whole bureaucratic/legal circus if you want to be erased from the internet lol) but independent designers' legacy? nuh uh... I can't even access any of the sites from back then, or the photo-hosting sites where this could be.

That grey skirt!

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