Clare Waight Keller - Designer, Creative Director of Uniqlo

[Deleted member 130879]

This could be huge. A true Humbert tribute.

But I'll be happy if they just stop with the sportswear/streetwear nonsense they've been trying to sell us for the last 4 years or something. No more hoodies, please.

 

[givenchypout]

April's fool comes quite early this year.

true

 

[t-rex]

Why did Tisci leave? (or was he kicked out?) What are the rumors as to where he might be going? I feel like I haven't heard anything about him in regards to leaving Givenchy

 

[BetteT]

Seee this thread about Tisci leaving Givenchy ... likely to have some info about why in here: http://forums.thefashionspot.com/f60/riccardo-tisci-leaving-givenchy-290127.html

 

[Creative]

I disagree. What Phoebe did there was exciting and innovative and captured everyone's attention. She did top-ranked shows there. What Clare did was competent, and consistent to the point of all being the same. We'll see if she has the chops for couture ... I wouldn't have thought so.

Phoebe was Zara 2.0 at Chloé.

I like Clare as a person but now I'm doubtful about her talent. I agree with IloveDiorHomme, these kind of bland designers are ruining fashion (Maria GC, Bouchra, Nadège, Sarah Burton...).

 

[fashionista-ta]

I found her volumes at Chloe quite interesting, and that's one thing those collections have in common with her work today. Zara knocked off Chloe, not vice versa.

Probably a few folks here had diaper rash when these collections came out, so do take a look if you haven't seen them

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[GreyVetiver]

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/26/...t&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=sectionfront&_r=0

There are some teases of her upcoming collection. Also, it sounds very ambitious of her to release a capsule collection every month.

 

[ghostwriter10549]

I'm so exciting for this! Can't wait until the show. That 'wanted posters' was a very cool thing.

 

[IloveDiorHomme]

It's gonna be a boredom festival. Sorry but lately when this kind of boring designer gets a tenure, it has been a wrong decision..

Maria-Grazia Chiuri replacing Raf Simons : boring and fugly
Bouchra Jarrar replacing Alber Elbaz : boring and dated

It will be exactly the same with Clare Waight-Keller. She will end-up designing "lovely, cute and commercial" collections with no message AT ALL. Because maybe this is the world of fashion we live in now. CEOs want this kind of designers whom aesthetics is closer to H&M/Zara than incredible visionary designers with a great point of view that imagine sell commercial pieces.

I am not negative, just realistic. Her work at Chloé was never exciting, iconic, modern, fresh...whatever quality you can find in a good collection. And I am very disappointed with this decision because LVMH should believe in young talents like it did in the 90's.

See you in september dear Clare, when you will make us all yawn with your floral blouses and itsy-bitsy brown purses .

Couldn't wait just to repost my pre-opinion about this show. and I wasn't wrong.

 

[Inlimbo]

Couldn't wait just to repost my pre-opinion about this show. and I wasn't wrong.

Lol. Where is the lie tho? There was no desire, just cute and boring clothes.

 

[Benn98]

Thank God!

EXCLUSIVE: Givenchy to Return to Paris Men’s Wear Calendar in January
After switching to coed shows following the arrival of Clare Waight Keller in 2017, Givenchy is returning to separate displays for men.
By Joelle Diderich on October 25, 2018

DIFFERENT STROKES: At least one major brand is battling the tide of coed shows.

After switching to joint women’s and men’s displays following the arrival of Clare Waight Keller as artistic director in 2017, Givenchy has decided to switch back to the men’s wear fashion calendar for the fall 2019 season, WWD has learned.

The French fashion house will stage a presentation on Jan. 16 during Paris Men’s Fashion Week, before returning to the runway in June, it said in a statement.

Waight Keller, whose coed spring collection was inspired by the gender-fluid style of Swiss writer Annemarie Schwarzenbach, will continue to show women and men side by side in her ready-to-wear and haute couture shows, the brand said. Her campaigns for the house have portrayed both genders in mirror-image pairs.

“Granting men’s wear a dedicated platform starting from January reflects the house’s support of Clare Waight Keller’s vision for the brand,” Givenchy said.

The move comes at a time when a growing number of brands are opting to present women’s and men’s wear at the same time. Celine and Maison Margiela staged their first coed shows this season, while brands including Stella McCartney, Balenciaga, Haider Ackermann and Sonia Rykiel featured models of both sexes on the catwalk.

French conglomerate LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, the owner of Givenchy, is making a high-profile push into the booming men’s wear market with the launch of the category at Celine, as well as the appointment of new designers at the helm of Louis Vuitton, Dior and Berluti in the last year.

Source: WWD.com

 

[TaylorBinque]

I really hope this will provide her better timeframe to create stronger menswear collection.

 

[GivenchyHomme]

Good. Now everyone should follow. I’m tired of bloated and watered down collections and not just from her.

 

[Benn98]

Vogue Paris March 2019

Miss Givenchy

Photographer: David Sims
Stylist: Emmanuelle Alt
Hair: Duffy
Makeup: Lucia Pieroni
Manicure: Ama Quashie
Cast: Rianne van Rompaey, Clare Waight Keller




Vogue Paris Digital Edition

 

[grimm]

If the rumours are true, it seems CWKs days are numbered. Will today be her last show?

 

[caioherrero]

If the rumours are true, it seems CWKs days are numbered. Will today be her last show?

Why? :/

 

[Lola701]

^^
Sales. Her Givenchy does not match the success of Riccardo and they are still relying on Riccardo’s era products. It must be worse on the menswear...
Dressing Megan is not enough to secure a position.

If the rumours are true, it seems CWKs days are numbered. Will today be her last show?

I heard it all week... We’ll see.

 

[caioherrero]

^^
Sales. Her Givenchy does not match the success of Riccardo and they are still relying on Riccardo’s era products. It must be worse on the menswear...
Dressing Megan is not enough to secure a position.

I heard it all week... We’ll see.

I love her Givenchy, IMO, it’s better them Riccardo.

It’s sad she’s leaving and MGC staying

 

[Lola701]

I love her Givenchy, IMO, it’s better them Riccardo.

It’s sad she’s leaving and MGC staying

I’m biais i love Riccardo...
His work was just more coherent and slicker. It was one vision from Couture to RTW, from the accessories to the campaigns. Clare’s Givenchy is different each season for each line..There’s a lack of coherence and therefore, it’s hard for clients to engage. That’s why she relies on logos and they are still selling still some accessories designed under Riccardo.

Her Chloe was great because of the coherence. From the campaigns to the clothes, it all made sense.

MGC is a commercial success for Dior and brings some kind of stability. Vuitton, Dior, Fendi and Loewe are doing great at LVMH while Celine and Givenchy, brands that were rising for LVMH are stagnant right now....Hedi is a bigger asset than Clare, even if nothing is sure about her being out of Givenchy.

 

[GivenchyAddict]

I just want to say : Bon voyage Clare !