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This is at least the third time I have seen this coat. Bottega, Fendi, and now Burberry.
Showing menswear and womenswear separately is the best idea they had. This was also a very entertaining clip to watch!
But yes, this is his best effort at Burberry. Don’t get me wrong, I loved the bourgeois stuff and his precollections (and I actually own some of his Burberry) but this feels very directional and Fashion! This is not fashion mixed with products...
The styling is still quite challenging and the designs gimmicks are useless but at least, there’s some sort of clarity and it’s easy to imagine what the commercial version of some of those pieces might look like.
And I agree with @GivenchyAddict , this is the first time it feels very « Burberry by Riccardo Tisci ».
But I still feel like he needs to be a little bit more commercial tho. It’s still a little bit too designed if it makes sense.
I love the bourgeois stuff and tbh some of his more HF pieces aren’t bad. When I say commercial, I mean « simpler ». I remember in on collection the best look was a shirt dress worn with a grey trench coat (his SS20 I think) and even in the ore-collection, it was sometimes simpler.^^^Hadn’t released that the “slashed” designs were Union Jacks… I just instantly thought “more Helmut snatches…”, especially the transparent yellow overlay skirt. And for that, the collection gets higher marks: Very solidly executed concept and reference. Looks like the sly and clever Riccardo of the good 'ol days seems to be waking up from his depressed corporate tenure at Burberry… And real fur would be wonderfully, supremely decadent— but he and the brand would be immediately cancelled.
If by “commercial”— meaning the very first debut preview of simple but very modern English Burberry bourgeois pieces, then absolutely: Such classic, conservative pieces would actually compliment these looks immensely. If it’s just more Nova Checks— like the one Nova Check poncho featured here, then god, no: That one look sticks out so randomly, like it’s designed by a 12yo neice just getting into fashion.