Like with Harris Reed's collection, it's becoming exhausting.
On one hand, I find the multi billion dollar expectations of the conglomerates rather grotesque whilst I also find the egocentric show ponying of shows like this to be equally as such. There really is no rhyme or reason to the existence of this and as great as creative freedom is and viewing fashion as "art" you still have to question the point of this in the grand scheme of things. Cathy said it herself about Velez and her generation, that it isn't about "a compelling new design" which is funny because more often than not they're also the type to cry wolf about financing.
When the designs are fine in this collection, there's still a basic reductive prettiness to them that can actually respond well to the current fashion fanatic demographic because none of this is really compelling. It's very easy to consume from an aesthetic POV because it taps into the hunger of what the new generation want to see in fashion whilst not having much beneath the surface of it all. It feels far more short lived because the actual impact isn't there because it is fairly disingenuous.
Hard to see this progressing further than what it has already become, and that can be applied to a lot of the newer designers as of late.