Christopher Raeburn S/S 2014 London

[Nymphaea]

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[Nymphaea]

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[Nymphaea]

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[Psylocke]

Not much here excites me. The first two looks have nothing to do with the rest of the collection? The color palette is quite a nightmare. And this whole collection offers nothing new. The only look I like is the last one in post 2; but that one is nearly identical to my favorite look in his F/W 13.14 collection ink: I would love to see him evolve and take his vision further, because I kind of love what he does, but his collections have been getting less and less interesting.

 

[Bernadette]

September 13, 2013 London
By Maya Singer

After several seasons showing via presentation, Christopher Raeburn made his debut on the big stage at London fashion week today. He's taken an unusual route to the runway, having started out primarily as a designer of unisex parkas and anoraks made from upcycled military dead stock, then expanding his offering and elaborating the brand's point of view. Raeburn is manifestly talented, and he's earned his right to a catwalk. But is that where his clothes belong? Today's show raised that question. This was Raeburn's most elevated and polished-looking womenswear collection by a long shot, and piece for piece there wasn't a bad look. His fabric selection was particularly savvy this time and included luxe textiles like a lizard-patterned jacquard and textured indigo-dyed linen, both from Italy, and technical materials like a squishy turquoise mesh from the Swiss manufacturer Schoeller. His prints, based on antique Ordnance Survey maps and super-new satellite photography of the desert, worked aesthetically and as storytelling. The designer's silhouettes have never before come off so feminine and refined. But when viewed as a whole, too few of these items really announced themselves, and too many of them seemed like showroom pieces thrust into an unforgiving spotlight.

There was something missing here that was hard to define, but for lack of the correct word let's call it fantasy. Raeburn is very much a form-meets-function kind of guy; you get the sense that he's at his most geeked-out when thinking about the utilitarian aspects of his clothes. And utility, for better or worse, doesn't translate easily to a runway. Raeburn is nothing if not a quick study, though; perhaps by next season he'll have made that last statement untrue.

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[TianSoFine]

I really like this! I love the prints and the textures and I can see myself wearing a lot of this.