Fall 2003 Wrap-up!

faves
Lanvin, Dries van Notten (i was there ) and Marni, best of all.
Prada was also one of my faves, mainly for those bags.
Yohji and Comme des Garcons had some great ideas -again.
veronique branquinho had some adorable pieces -the black and beige blouses.
Narciso Rodrigues has a nice collection

Rising talents? kudos to Martin Grant and of course to my adorable Lutz

Dissapointments
Sophia Kokosalaki (always expecting much more from her this time)
Olivier Theyskens (also been expecting more for his Rochas debut)
Mark Jacobs (i'm sorry for his mods/optical collection, not that good on his LV either)
Hussein Chalayan (he could do much better)
Balenciaga
Ungaro I liked a lot his last Haute Couture collection but those rushed leggins were not up to his reputation
Andrew Gn what happened to his -usually- great ideas ?

surprises
the gucci collection was much better than I expected.
i saw some nice things at Anna Sui's 20's collection

 

Junya Watanabe amazing amazing colletion, not his most revolutionary but deffinetly one of the best



Yohji Yamamoto amazing as always elgent and street, great

Rochas veyr lovely elgent

Balenciaga Really nice urban elgent as usuall (happy to see a good colletion after the not so good spring collection)

Comme Des Garcons Wonderful feeling very inspireing ideas, not the strongest colletion for rei but deffinetly amzing as usuall

Best new desigenrs

even though he is old in japan Undercover nwas amazing and brilliant and very wearable

Lutz inspireing intresting not the most amzing stuff btu really good


Disapouinted

Hussien Chalayan trying to be more comercia, great stuff but no new ideas and also I get worried when people say it was sexy

 

these are just my personal opinions and not any sort of speculation as to what was techinically the best. my favourites were alexander mcqueen and dries van noten. alexander mcqueen's collection was just...incredible. it was theatrical, dramatic...I don't think there was anything I didn't fall in love with. and I've always liked dries van noten, but this collection really solidified my feelings as a favourite. I loved most everything.

biggest disappointments were emma cook and anna molinari.

 

I definitly loved Tom Fords for Gucci. he really stepped it up this year blowing out his competition. I saw a glimpse of his spring line and it is looking pretty good, gotta love the new mini skirts coming in.

 

I love Miuccia Prada's Miu Miu for fall! I'm debating over whichcoat I want from the collection! There's far too many to choose from! I love the new style of wearing a belt around your coat though! I also really liked Tata-Naka's collection!