Burberry F/W 2020.21 London

[Lola701]

This is more of the same messiness from seasons past.
Christopher Baileys Burberry was so spot on.
It was young, British, classic, cool, all things you would want to own forever.
Nobody wants this Burberry.
It is also quite tacky which Burberry is not.

I mean, his last few seasons weren’t cool or classic...Just saying.
If he went at the top of his game, OK but it wasn’t the case at all.

 

[ghostwriter10549]

Where are the twisted stuff???? How a freaky girl like me should know how to wear theses days? You abandoned us Riccardo, but i happy for you, getting the checks and stuff and the work is not a total fail.

 

[lauralynn025]

There were a lot of looks!!
I did see some beautiful things though!! the last black coat at the end - 4th to last (I think), is gorgeous, the long dress with sheer sleeves is beautiful also.

for some reason, I really liked that big green coat even though I am not that much into wearing bright colors!!

Anyway, the collection is so big that it doesn’t really feel like a collection. More like the closet of someone with a very eclectic style in clothes!!

 

[RaisinBoy]

Who styled this? It's too much, yet not enough.

 

[RaisinBoy]

Love Riccardo !

 

[fakeawake]

Riccardo just doesn't have the french engineering like in paris the clothes really need better construction

I just saw a jacket and pant from this collection in person and it looks like junk.

English tailoring isn't supposed to be super avant grade like this - their tailoring just doesn't support avantgarde shapes (this is why McQueen is a big deal). These clothes could use things like hidden darts but thats more French than English. English do super long front darts- you'd never see that on French clothes.

It's a fundamental mismatch of designer and the capability of the house.

 

[fakeawake]

This is a great example of the atelier not being able to produce Riccardos' work accurately. This looks like a mess of seams everywhere - because the atelier director is not trained to hide seams to maintain patterns - that is a French/Italian thing. Also it looks like they can't join two different fabrics together (look at the puckering) but a brand like Dior would have no problem doing that.

 

[Lola701]

^^
You summed up perfectly one of the issue. Even CB’s clothes were simply but beautifully constructed. When he tried to push himself in terms of techniques, it failed. I remember a collection full of drapés. It was a whole bulky mess. Decoration works for Burberry but Couture like techniques is a no...

And we have the same example at Vuitton with Nicolas. Some of his experimentations looked weird because he tried to challenge the atelier when they were used to a fairly conventional construction with Marc Jacobs.