Calvin Klein 205W39NYC Resort 2019

[andrew]

This Americana-semiotic stuff is just so on the nose and superficial

 

[mepps]

Raf is the worst thing that's ever happened to Calvin Klein.

 

[mepps]

Raf is the worst thing that's ever happened to Calvin Klein.

 

[Pricciao]

Gift shop chic.

Oh boy did you just create something worse than Demna by accident. I can totally see a rally of young Parisians doing this thing.

 

[Pricciao]

Gift shop chic.

Oh boy did you just create something worse than Demna by accident. I can totally see a rally of young Parisians doing this thing.

 

[gazebo]

Just think for a second how absolutely ridiculous this really is.
CK brings in a European designer to an "all American" brand, just to give us these tired cliches of what is "America" - cowboy boots, college life, native patterns - like some oblivious foreigner some decades ago.

Ok if he did it the first collection, but NO, this are his staples now and he just runs with it. This is just sad as it is, but considering this is CK now, makes it depressing.

He obviously thinks being so literal is the epitome of cool - but it's not.

I blame the media for this - praising such terrible collections makes him put no creative effort in, and run with anything that first comes to his mind. Very terrible.

 

[gazebo]

Just think for a second how absolutely ridiculous this really is.
CK brings in a European designer to an "all American" brand, just to give us these tired cliches of what is "America" - cowboy boots, college life, native patterns - like some oblivious foreigner some decades ago.

Ok if he did it the first collection, but NO, this are his staples now and he just runs with it. This is just sad as it is, but considering this is CK now, makes it depressing.

He obviously thinks being so literal is the epitome of cool - but it's not.

I blame the media for this - praising such terrible collections makes him put no creative effort in, and run with anything that first comes to his mind. Very terrible.

 

[Nomar]

It's a shame about the horrible university logos because I actually like the silhouettes. Raf's idea of 'Americana' is too blatantly obvious and cliché at this point.

 

[Nomar]

It's a shame about the horrible university logos because I actually like the silhouettes. Raf's idea of 'Americana' is too blatantly obvious and cliché at this point.

 

[Lola701]

He obviously thinks being so literal is the epitome of cool - but it's not.

His homages to Warhol are the worst....

 

[Lola701]

He obviously thinks being so literal is the epitome of cool - but it's not.

His homages to Warhol are the worst....

 

[Phuel]

I’ve always found Raf too heavy-handed in his design offerings, and way too insufferable in his presentation aesthetics to make sure everyone gets how high fashion he is. He’s never been about restraint.

However, as obnoxious as the gimmicks are here— and this is likely the most unbearable and most blatantly in your face of his aesthetic direction since he took over at Calvin, it’s still more forgivable, more palatable and way more restrained then the his lessers Demna, Alesandro and Virgil. Take away the cheap gimmicks of basketball-themed accessories, and Ivy League branding that resemble the brand of cheapness, tackiness and juvenile-level of gimmckry that’s a result of some flash design challenge on any given episode of trash-TV like Project Runway, and the rest of the pieces are just slicker, sleeker, repurposed Raf signatures. I still wouldn’t wear any of this, let alone pay for it. But it’s a lot less insulting than anything by the lessers that have become the leaders of this dire era of big fashion.

Maybe even Raf knows he needs to dumb way way way down to appeal to the kidz to have some relevance these days. (And I really dig his version of the Frye/cowboy boots in Pop Art colorway.)

 

[Phuel]

I’ve always found Raf too heavy-handed in his design offerings, and way too insufferable in his presentation aesthetics to make sure everyone gets how high fashion he is. He’s never been about restraint.

However, as obnoxious as the gimmicks are here— and this is likely the most unbearable and most blatantly in your face of his aesthetic direction since he took over at Calvin, it’s still more forgivable, more palatable and way more restrained then the his lessers Demna, Alesandro and Virgil. Take away the cheap gimmicks of basketball-themed accessories, and Ivy League branding that resemble the brand of cheapness, tackiness and juvenile-level of gimmckry that’s a result of some flash design challenge on any given episode of trash-TV like Project Runway, and the rest of the pieces are just slicker, sleeker, repurposed Raf signatures. I still wouldn’t wear any of this, let alone pay for it. But it’s a lot less insulting than anything by the lessers that have become the leaders of this dire era of big fashion.

Maybe even Raf knows he needs to dumb way way way down to appeal to the kidz to have some relevance these days. (And I really dig his version of the Frye/cowboy boots in Pop Art colorway.)

 

[MillerJoe]

It does actually look like the colours of bodily fluids to whoever made that comment.

 

[MillerJoe]

It does actually look like the colours of bodily fluids to whoever made that comment.